Would the child you were be proud of the adult you're becoming?

      Remember when you had this perfect picture of your future?, yeah I remember too; a perfect spouse, cover of magazine kind of kids, a house that is self-sufficient( your own hospital, supermarket, spa and all ) and unlimited supply of wealth. Then you started out chasing this dream with a determination level of 100% not wavering in your expectations.
      Then as you grew up, you realized that life is a different ball game than you thought or watched on TV. Somehow along the way you started to misplace your priorities, settling for less, taking life as it comes, pursuing your dreams effortlessly not being bothered about the little or no results you were getting in terms of your set goals, and you  found yourself slowly drifting from everything you once claimed to love and appreciate that you thought would propel you in the right direction. So now you think, seeing I'm no good, either I'll manage any male folk with good intentions, or well my kids should just look healthy and oh well money is not necessity let me just have sufficient to live only; and then right now who needs A's, C's are just cool; that's a drop in standard right there, your thoughts are sent to the brain as a signal, which the brain will interpret and you'd become it.
      So you a once egg headed child willing to break limits for your dreams to transform into reality, settles into an acquiesce adolescence with little energy left to fight for your voice to be heard in the world, so you compromise your standards to the lowest possible place, become a person no one wants to associate with, lose your integrity at so young an age, be an average student in opposition to your dreamed 'A' student status. Now unto college, it gets worse, you just want to graduate , date about anybody and lose a part of yourself in the process. Hang out with the wrong crowd against your better judgement just in a bid to fit in.
      Now you are lost, empty, bitter, confused, frustrated, and even at the brink of totally giving up; because you suddenly realize that if you had somehow been kept aplomb in yourself and held unto things that matter most to you and would have given an immeasurable level of accomplishment than blending in and losing yourself. So now your life is almost a fiasco everything has gone kilter but somehow you have a ray of hope left within you waiting to burst out of the seams of your now downtrodden soul.
      So you take a trip down memory lane..., in an attempt to revive the lost energy, find your misplaced focus and almost ruined goals by mini-you. So you get re-engineered to propel yourself unwavering in the path of success, but this time with your initial goals in mind, not the ones you formed along the way.

BOTTOM LINE: Whatever you do, don't kill the dreams of the child you were, Fight to become the person you always dreamed of and don't let go until you've achieved all; so that if ever there was a meeting with the past you, you guys would bump fists and say 'Yup, we did it!'.