Whatever happened to your teenage dream?

I don't think I ever actually had one. At least not like in the movies where kids dream of being astronauts or something.

I guess I wanted to be an athlete, I'd have loved to have been a rugby player. Dad killed that dream immediately, telling me I'd be crushed by bigger kids and that my local club wouldn't want beginners.

>>34986214
Wanted to be a famous actor, people convinced me it was impossible so I chose a job in a car dealer ship instead and here I am... Fuck me

It's become impossible to achieve at this point. Now I just exist in a state of perpetual frustration as I see my friends and family achieve theirs.

>>34986318
That's sad as shit

its impossible to become a girl

Swallowed by the bottomless pit of oblivion, just like everything else will be.

I never had one, I wish I did because then I might have actually had some direction in life.

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>did have any dreams
>still didn't manage to achieve them

I just want to be a mathematician

My teenage dream was almost realized until they found me and locked me away in a hospital.

>>34986214
I wanted to be an animal doctor in middleschool, then I realized animals are inferior creatures good only as slaves or meat

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>>34986214
I never had a concrete one. I liked shonen, JRPGs and misc. adventure. I didn't like camping or hiking. I started getting /fit/ as a teen. Long story short, weight lifting turned into martial arts which I still practice today.

I make a conscious effort to never discuss work with people outside of work. Work is what I do so I can afford to do what my life is about. It will never be satisfying to define myself with a job/career/odd jobs/prostitution ring.

If I can afford to live without work, then I won't work. I don't care where that puts me in comparison to my peers. My best friend died, another got a DUI and I know a girl who became an alcoholic. I will never be in last place.

Moved the goalpost, from doctor to PT

>>34986314
Why not just be an actor instead? Going into acting with the expectation of fame is the wrong way to go about it.

i want a big family and a loving wife. I want to see my happy children come home from school. I want to be a firm disciplining hand to my wifes soft consolation. I want to mould them into model human beings in a way which was never done with me. I want to watch them grow up and be successful.

>wanted to make video games
>now an indie dev making a video game
Yay

>>34986747
>indie dev

please don't gentrify our board

"Eh, I have time for that tomorrow"

It's tomorrow now and suddenly it's gone and the only thing life is offering is 9 to 5 monotone work and washed up people who only have fun by drinking alcohol and virtue-signaling

At least I have the compulsory armed forces to look forward to, but I have literally 0 purpose in my life after that year is done.

I waited for my teenage years all my life. I never actually thought of things beyond that. They actually weren't that bad through 13-16, but I missed out on so many things I could have had and never got the chance to have them again the rest of my teens were just apathetic and boring.

>>34986214
I pursued my dream anon, but then I realised despite obtaining the appropriate qualifications and experience the entire profession was impossible to break into without the help of nepotism/wealth.

>>34986214
My dream was to develop grand strat / rts games.
Yes I unironically wanted to do this.

Never had one. Now my life is better than I could have imagined.

>>34986721
So how close are you to achieving that?

>>34986214
I wanted to be a writer.
It's one of those dreams where you can actually do it at any time, so I got lucky that way at least. I don't think about it very much anymore though and I just don't give a shit about most things other than the people that I know, that have been my longtime friends.

>>34986914
Its harder then I thought. I have sound ideas and can express myself well but I'm too ADHD to actually sit down and write for hours on end. The most I can manage is about a paragraph and hour.

I wanted to make cool atmospheric black metal and perform it live. It's not that hard to achieve really, I'm just a perfectionist and never release anything.

One day...

>>34986856
im here so guess.

Actually given the current state of /r9k/ its forgivable. No where near. Im a 21 year old khv. I dont know what i do wrong, i look ok, im clean and shaven, im not fat, i have interests besides anime and vidya but somewhere along the line i fell off the train and became a failed normie.


Accepting a washed up stacy whos done with the cock carousel would be the thing which killed me. I honestly think i would just off myself if i married that.

>>34986952
I can write a lot and have the attention to do pretty much anything for hours on end except for read a novel (pretty ironic). The reason I don't read as much anymore though is not because I don't enjoy it, but because the picture of everything in my head is not as vivid and perfect as it used to be when I was younger.
Also the reason I don't write at least right now is because I look back on my life and all of my ideas for fiction were extremely derivative of other things I liked whether they were movies, stories, or games.
I don't try to get down on myself but I can see pretty clearly that I don't have many original ideas when it comes to fiction.

>>34986214
They died the day I realised I will die alone and miserable.

>>34986459
Im in the same boat as you. Are you still pursuing that dream?

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>always wanted to be an artist
>favourite thing was drawing
>was good
>would love when it rained at school so I could stay in and draw
>kids would ask me to draw them stuff to colour in
>would paint the displays in the school an the teachers request
>won the school art award
>went to high school
>continued to improve
>never had any other dreams than something to do with art
>always thought it would end up being my career
>8th grade
>my grades start suffering as i become unhappy in school
>my dad yells at me
>says i'll never be an artist
>tells me i'm living in a fairy tale if think It's ever gonna happen
>goes on like this for 10 minutes ripping me to shreds
>believe him
>stop doing anything artistic
>try and rekindle it later on but it's never the same
>tfw I lost my passion for the only thing I was any good at

Fuck you Dad. You alcoholic piece of shit.

I wanted to be an artist of some sort. Drawing, Painting, Film-making, Animation, Sculpting, just something like that that I thought would be a good creative outlet for me.

I've never had dreams.

I just wanted to be happy and now I am not even sure that happiness even exists. You may be satisfied with life but happiness only happens in very short bursts which have one hell of a comedown. I often think about killing myself because at least then I wouldn't have to worry about any of this bullshit.
Not sad anymore just tired.

>>34986459
This dream currently lingers inside me too. I think most of my aspirations come from a desire to overcome the failures of my past. I've never been good at math, so I want to really master it and be recognized for doing it. I was a poor student, so I want to have some sort of notable academic achievement.

I think I just want to be a greater person than I'm capable of being, and my inability to do just that is driving me mad.