big_fat_fluffy to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoAre the dreams of youth the regrets of maturity? Really?message-squaremessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up146arrow-down1message-squareAre the dreams of youth the regrets of maturity? Really?big_fat_fluffy to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square21fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-24 days agoI admire Madonna, Garth Brooks and Lady Gaga for the same reasons. They all said, “I’m going to do this thing.”, and did it. And they sure aimed high.
minus-squareccunning@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·4 days agoI don’t think that’s what’s meant. It’s not that he set out to do a thing and achieved it; it’s that he set out to do what a child dreamed of but now he’s a grown man.
minus-squareTangent5280@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoYeah, and it sounds like now he has 50 year old dreams that he yearns for instead.
I admire Madonna, Garth Brooks and Lady Gaga for the same reasons. They all said, “I’m going to do this thing.”, and did it. And they sure aimed high.
I don’t think that’s what’s meant. It’s not that he set out to do a thing and achieved it; it’s that he set out to do what a child dreamed of but now he’s a grown man.
Yeah, and it sounds like now he has 50 year old dreams that he yearns for instead.