Being Sombodies(Unrevised)

Looking back on today, when we were all kids, people would often ask us what we wanted to be when all grown up. Amongst the responses given by us, only a good few of us would actually become what we said we would be, I myself use to answer that question with a very confident, “Doctor!”. Eventually we all went from the comfort of our homes to pre-school and beyond. During that entire time, our parents and even our teachers would start to mold our minds and fill them with all these various ideas and concepts which would inevitably lead to us wanting to become someone when we do reach that oh so glorious point in our lives.

We had such vivid and expansive minds, limited only to our imaginations. For most of us though, where did all our hopes and dreams go? Only after such deep reassessment and recollection can we realize that our dreams have never abandoned us nor have we abandoned them. Our future selves have been dormant deep in our subconscious just waiting to be awakened and once these childhood ambitions do awaken, they don’t necessarily manifests themselves into these “doctors” that we wanted to be when we were young. The only reason we respond with “doctor” is because when we were younger the careers: doctor, policeman, soldier, teacher, etc are concepts that we understand and explains paths in our lives that we want to follow, concepts still unfathomable to us lead to such responses albeit these responses don’t stray far from what we would actually want to be. Eventually I realized that although I no longer wanted to be Dr. Derick, the desire so still help people as doctors do is still there. The human concept of thought works in oh so mysterious ways, that one can’t do away but rather go with the flow of our own individual currents.

Now, all grown up and hopefully smarter, when once again asked the question, we would be a lot more confident in our response because of a better understanding of who we are how we want to leave our mark on this world. We who have been blessed to be given the freedom to choose what we set out to be in the not so distant future have once looked back and thought to ourselves; what did we want to be when we grow up? So the next time you walk up to your little brother or sister and sarcastically ask what they want to be, actually listen to them and look back at your own childhood you may just understand yourself a little bit better after seeing how the other side of the question works. So whether we “childhood doctors” become real doctors or turn out to be something else, one fact remains, and that fact is that we all wanted to be somebody and somebody we will be.