You know a dream is like a river - ever changing as it flows.What did you want to be when you grew up? Did you become that?
I didn't. I wanted to be a lawyer. (That was until my first pre-law class in University. I couldn't run far enough, fast enough.) But I actually remember the day when I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. Now giggle if you must but I bet your story isn't too far off.
I was watching a soap opera with my sister after school one day when one of the characters who happened to be a lawyer was asked by someone on the show to take a pro-bono case for a boy in distress.The lawyer laughed and made some comment to shrug it off. Only later in a different scene he mentioned the absurdity to his "wife". While he continued to laugh she looked him in the face and asked, "who wouldn't want to do that for so-and-so."
I didn't even know what pro-bono was until I pulled our dusty dictionary off the shelf. Right there, at that moment I decided to become a lawyer so I could do pro-bono cases.
Looking back, I don't think my dream was to spend my life working for free. I think I was drawn to the concept behind the term.
Helping someone who can't help themselves with the specific set of skills I have.
That sounds like a servant's attitude to me. So even though I never became a lawyer
