big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoAre the dreams of youth the regrets of maturity? Really?message-squaremessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up144arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up139arrow-down1message-squareAre the dreams of youth the regrets of maturity? Really?big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square18fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-21 month 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-up10arrow-down1·1 month 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-up3·1 month 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.