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JustAnotherGen

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2. I wouldn't call them dreams per se
Fri Mar 7, 2014, 02:49 PM
Mar 2014

But my goals I've reached -

I wanted to travel extensively by myself - check
I didn't want to get married until I was at least 35 - check
I wanted to be featured on a national news program for doing something positive - check
I wanted to remain friends with an inner circle of friends (three since grade school - and 5 since high school) for the rest of my life - so far so good - check


I was a ballerina - too and did some modeling as a teenage. The best thing that ever happened to me was blowing out my left knee and learning of the permanent damage the day after I received the scholarship to NYU.

I got to dance with a ballet as a teenager - so I guess I got to do something that a lot of kids dreamed of but never even got the the chance to do. Better for 'five minutes' than never at all.

But it was a blessing - it taught me to keep myself open to change.

I guess - nothing in my life is random. All is by design. And I have no regrets about any of my choices that put me where I am today.

I have one goal left from my youth - and I think this year I will reach it. But I'm only 41. I've started forming new ones. And I actually have a 'dream' now - and it's to own a home in Costa Rica. However, I've already started to transform that into a goal with a plan and a way to get there a few months every year.


Pssst - my husband says I'm very 'literal'. He's the dreamer in our little family of two - I'm Action Adrienne!

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