When I was [much] younger, I'd fantasize about driving a big rig, hauling a gigantic Caterpillar D9 bulldozer on a flatbead, thick black diesel blowing out the twin 'stacks of my Mack tractor; or, fighting blazing infernos in full firefighting gear; or drag-racing in a top fuel dragster, zipping down the quarter-mile track at almost 300 m.p.h. Did I actually live out one of my fantasies? No...but, it was sure fun to dream big, "outside of the box". Dreams feed the imagination and provide, hopefully, reachable goals in one's life. Dreams add color to the otherwise black and white landscape of reality, not bleak, but, often mundane and requisite responsibilities one faces as one "grows up".
So, what are your fantasies, your dreams?
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I had this dream, in my youth, of organizing a road trip with some friends. It would be the road trip of road trips, the mother of road trips.
Have you ever heard of the Pan-American Highway? Check it out on Wikipedia if you haven't.
With my friends, a nurse, maybe a doctor, and a few armed guards, we would travel south through San Antonio, cross the Mexican border, drive through Monterey, and eventually wind up at Ushuaia, at the southern tip of South America.
It never happened. Instead, I finished college, got a job and started a family. Maybe not so adventurous, but I'm content, even happy, with the life I have.
But I still dream of that wild road trip from time to time.
I've had a bunch of similar dreams...accomplishing things that seem to be impossible. Thinking back to it makes me feel young again.
Got you again, Deek!
My "fantasy" or dream is to become a vertrinarian when I become an adult. But I dont really call is a (quote) "fantasy" (un-quote) because I am determined to become one when I am older (much older).
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One dream of mine is about to come
true: affordable health insurance for (almost) all Americans and legal residents. No exclusions for people with chronic illnesses. No exclusions for people who have the chutzpah to actually get sick. Long live President Obama, and long live America. Our land has finally joined the other advanced countries of the world in making health care available to almost all.
Love your road trip, Allan. I have a question - obviously you have an affinity with those who "needed" affordable healthcare...I do not, fortunately. do you possess such affordable health insurance?
To be continues...Gotta run to teach.
I'm a retired State employee, now working as a substitute teacher. My health insurance is great, thank you. But I know people who have children who have chronic illnesses/preexisting conditions.
What is your reaction to the following. A letter in today's New York Times
said tbis:
Call me a bean counter, but I couldn’t help noting the diverse faces in the photograph on your March 22 front page showing the House Democrats outside the Capitol before the vote on the health care bill. White, black, brown, male, female — they came close to representing America.
The photograph just beneath it, of House Republicans holding “Kill the Bill” placards, shows four white men.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpOUctySD68
Nothing against the offer of health care provisions as long as everyone pays his/her fair share...we don't need any more entitlements, funded by the TAXPAYER without our "expressed written permission"...I have this funny feeling the Feds don't have a clue about the management of the health-care industry...look at Social Security. Scary!
The same people who during the Roosevelt administration opposed Social Security are now opposing everything that the present, Obama, administration is doing. Whether it's health care (I've got mine, and I don't care about whether you have it or not), or oil exploration (the drill baby, drill crowd), or the Teabaggers with their posters of Obama with a Hitler mustache, or Obama as the Joker in a Batman movie....they haven't changed much. All white, all smug, all anti-intellectual, all the time. Scary.
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