“I was a hopeless romantic, now I’m just turning tricks”

It is interesting how, as a young person, we are full of resolve to do something meaningful in life. Whether it be for personal gain or the betterment of the world, most of us leave our institutions of higher learning with a head full of ideas about the future. I would hazard a wager that for most of us those ideas have very little in common with our respective realities 10 or 12 years later. Initially we take jobs that aren’t exactly what we are looking for because we’re tired of living with our parents and have credit card bills to pay. Not ones to fail, we apply ourselves to tasks that we believe to be below us and gradually work our way to better jobs and better pay, all the while growing further away from the grandiose dreams we held in our younger years. All of a sudden more than a decade has gone by and we have careers and, in some cases, families and all of a sudden this no longer a means to an end, this is a career and what our lives have become. But you know, it isn’t so bad. The view is nice from my office and I get to travel and even make enough to take Mrs. GF out for dinner at a reasonably priced restaurant from time to time. Perhaps this is complacency or just a shifting of priorities. Whatever the case, I still hold tight to the dream of changing the world….or at least being able to afford good tequila on a more consistent basis. That would be okay too.