When I got my diagnosis last week, and with it the hope for eventual recovery one day, I felt like it was okay for me to have outrageous dreams and lifegoals again.

Granted, I am pretty young so my dreams can get a little "out there" But it's never too late to make a wish and let your mind go nuts!

So I'm just curious, what is something you always wanted to do?

You know, those unrealistic dreams of fame, fortune, success, and/or happiness. The things you would do if you had unlimited funding and NO Lyme!

I always wanted that typical dream of being a rockstar. My childhood friend (whom I've performed with quite often) recently contacted me wanting to get together.

You never know!

If that doesn't work out (chuckle) I'd be content to be a famous photographer

Take care everyone,

AG

1. Trying my hand at acting, particularly with some of the hubba hubba hunks from General Hospital.

2. If money was no issue, I always wanted to run a house for homeless teens, give em lots of love attention, and help for the future.

But right now my biggest dream is just to be well enough to ACT like a good wife and give MY kids lots of love n attention.

Now, that I am older...I know that it is not very realistic to do both of these things at the same time.

Now, I just dream of traveling....the great outdoors with a few cities here and there.

And of having a service dog by my side.

And of getting out of the town I currently am living in and into a town with lots of nature, clean air and water....the mountains or the beach.

When I first came down with this, I thought I needed to get back to my original dream of teaching and working with the Deaf.

But, that takes a brain and I left my brain and my brain feels like it is too big for my head right now.

Then, I had a dream of getting well enough to go with my LLMD to help out with whatever I could when he goes to 3rd World Countries to volunteer his medical service.

Dreams are good to have. I need to work on this one.

Good post

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Traveling sounds nice about now!

then i went to school at drexel for a year as a fashion design major and decided I hated to sew.

then i decided I would like to be an art teacher...(yes if I could be anything)

(my art is mine I will never work on comission... i need COMPLETE control)

... then i went to art school and majored in painting/drawing with a minor in art education....

I got my BFA ...i got sick before i finished student teaching....

Ive been disabled for 4 yrs BUT....

as soon as i'm better I have one semester of student teaching left and have to take some tests and then I'll be able to teach art k-12

then once i get a job I want to get my masters so i can teach college if i want...

I miss working on my art it will be great when I can get back to it.

I think it is important to have dreams... and to work hard to reach your goals.

After all, we only live once!

I have been fortunate enough to live out most of my "childhood dreams" already... except for riding in a trolley car in San Francisco... seeing the Golden Gate Bridge.. going to the Indy 500 to see a car race... working a winter season on a big cruise ship.. seeing the big trees out west, the kind that you could drive a car through the trunk... seeing the Petrified Forest... and becoming a doctor by age 50 so I could go to the Appalachian/Blue Ridge mountains and work for free to help folks who are sick.

HA! Sounds like I still have a lot left to do.. but really.. I had a list a mile long when I started out ... and most of my dreams HAVE come true. I am truely thankful.

My young adult dreams included experiencing ALL of the National Parks in the USA and the many wonders they hold in store.... going to see, actually working (waitressing) in Jimmy Buffet's Marguritaville in Key West, FL (even for one hour and I would do it for free)... building a log cabin in the woods... and..

OK.. since we ARE dreaming...

I want to be sailing on the warm tropical waters.. in the sunshine...

OK... OK... The WHOLE truth?

On Jimmy Buffet's sail boat!

Like Jimmy says...

"If you ever wonder why you ride the carrosel,

You do it for the stories you could tell."

Oh yeah....

I just want to get better so I can wrestle with my 6-year old. I want to play hide and seek and tag and ball with him. and when he says " last one to the door is a rotten egg" I just want to beat him at least 1 time.
My only real concern is living long enough to raise him. My only real fear is that it won't happen. I just want to raise my child myself and instill good values in him. I want him to stay in church and to serve God.

There's so many things he needs me for...............but even more than that, there's so many things I need him for. He's my heart and my very reason for living. Without him, my reason would be gone for getting better.

Thanks for listening and Bless You All,

I want to be invited to a really wonderful party where you shop for the perfect sparkling dress then have your hair done up nice and look like a million bucks.

I wish the stock market would give us back the small retirement amount that we lost and counted on, so that we could worry less about health costs since we cannot go back to work to make it up!

And...I'd like to be a concert pianist...I'm only a beginner with 7 months of piano behind me so far. Whew! gotta long way to go.

Not knowing what was going on and differnt from the other kids.

All I wanted was to be normal!

The Moon And St. Christopher
(Mary Chapin Carpenter)

When I was young I spoke like a child, and I saw with a child's eyes
And an open door was to a girl like the stars are to the sky
It's funny how the world lives up to all your expectations
With adventures for the stout of heart, and the lure of the open spaces

There's 2 lanes running down this road, whichever side you're on
Accounts for where you want to go, or what you're running from
Back when darkness overtook me on a blind man's curve

I relied upon the moon, I relied upon the moon
I relied upon the moon and Saint Christopher

Now I've paid my dues cuz I have owed them, but I've paid a price sometimes
For being such a stubborn woman in such stubborn times
Now I have run from the arms of lovers, I've run from the eyes of friends
I have run from the hands of kindness, I've run just because I can

But now I'm grown and I speak like a woman and I see with a woman's eyes
And an open door is to me now like the saddest of goodbyes
It's too late for turning back, I pray for the heart and the nerve

And I rely upon the moon, I rely upon the moon
I rely upon the moon and Saint Christopher