Dreams that have passed you by?

Oh Sheilasue?I dreamed of having a large family, but due to fertility problems and miscarriage only had one child ( but don’t get me wrong I’m hugely grateful for her) Sadly I seemed to pass the same problems to her, but again we are so lucky to have DGS

I longed to go to ballet classes but parents said they couldn’t afford it. All I got were aome pink ballet shoes and I used to dance in the window hoping to be siscovered. 40 years on my DD won a scholarship to London Contemp Dance School. Her DD, my GD, at 10 does a lot of dance and tonight is her opening night as Macduff’s daughter in Macbeth at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. I shall ‘see’ her (from the gods) on Easter Monday and, hopefully have a closer view, at Live screening at the cinema on 4 April. So, I kind of got my dream without the painful joints. I’m content.

Riding in a race on my own horse, came very close.

I have wanted to go to New Zealand for as long as I can remember and in 2009 I went and it was everything I expected it to be.

When I was young I decided I'd win Wimbledon one day. Fifty years on it's still my intention... it's just a case of finding the time.

I don't think any dreams have passed me by although I'm sure at one point in my young life I might have dreamed about being rich and famous.

I wanted a pony but couldn't have one because we were always on the move so I married a farmer....Sorted!

I always wanted to live in the country with happy children, animals, garden....Ticked that box.

I had no desire to travel much as an adult (did enough of that as a child) other than holidays so no lost dreams there.

I've been very lucky so these days I just hope our health will hold out.

And dream about winning the lottery

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I was feeling quite contended till I started reading this thread and now I've got itchy feet!!

Does anyone else think that the young of today would not believe how we allowed our dreams to be thwarted by husbands and parents?
I am so pleased my C and GC are growing up in a more equal world, although it is far from perfect yet.
My D of52 has had to separate to realise she can achieve her ambitions.

Yep!

I just wanted to find a nice decent man. Sounds simple when you see it written down eh???

Most of my dreams have been shelved. Its just how things have turned out.

I wanted a bike when I was young. My parents wouldn’t let me have one, so I never learned how to cycle.
Looking at all of our thwarted desires, I’m going to try & find cycling lessons for 70 year olds!
On & upwards everyone & not I hope forward & off.
Great post, thank you .

We are living our dream in the country at the moment while health permits but I would love to go on a cruise. DH wont go in a boat or fly so looks like I wouldnt like to go without him so I may have a long wait.

I always wanted to see Elvis in concert, but he died when I was nineteen, long before I'd managed to save any money to pay for the trip.
Grannybags and Sarahellenwhitney, We flew to New York on Concorde in 1985, having deprived ourselves of everything but necessities for 2 years to save up enough for the fares and hotel.
It was amazing, just a brilliant experience, and made the journey home again seem drab, boring and very, very long!
We have loads of ashtrays, coasters, keyrings, pens, three teddies, glasses etc, all bought as mementoes of our trip.
Concorde was very narrow, for obvious reasons, and the seats were, to be honest, pretty uncomfortable, (and this was in the days when I was still very slim), but the whole experience was wonderful.
I never felt the need to fly on Concorde again, we'd been Supersonic and that was enough for me!
However, that trip did make me fall head over heels in love with New York, and I'm not really a city girl at all, but NY isn't just a city, it's the city!
We haven't been for a couple of years now, and I'm getting withdrawal symptoms!

I always wanted to buy a plot of land and build a cottage of my own design which I'd design inside and out. I content myself with arranging the interior of my little house to my satisfaction, also the garden.

I wanted to build dry stone walls but felt there was no point telling anyone (not a job for a girl) so off I went to teacher training college, married. had children etc. By the time my life would have allowed me to follow my dream my back was not able to do it. Now I content myself by looking and marvel at the work of others.

I wanted a daughter (but then was delighted with a son). Now have gorgeous GD and GS. (One of each.) Couldn't be more happy!

I hoped to practice medicine. Probably psychiatry which requires long training but my parents refused to pay for my o levels even though I passed the mocks. They insisted women gave up work at 18 to have children. I had my son at 37 at my husband's request and in my late sixties am considering continuing my psychotherapy studies.

My dream was to be an Olympic figure skater some day!

I first skated on ice at the age of six. My parents took me to the skating rink at New York city's Rockefeller Center on a Thanksgiving Day. I wanted to join the skaters so they rented skates for me and I was hooked. I hated the black rental skates (heels painted green) however, and demanded my own pair of 'proper' girl skates. I got my first pair of (white) figure skates for Christmas that same year.

Alas, I never had the required stamina or athleticism, albeit I did take it quite seriously growing up, lessons, coaches and all. At age fourteen I even managed to eke out my first and otherwise elusive axle. By then, I was in High School however and my main interests had switched from skating to boys, parties and grades, in that order.

Over the years, I never really stopped skating regularly, until I got married. By then my dream had morphed. One of the children would be my ice skating champion/ Olympic contender. No, that didn't happen either.... The girls preferred Gymnastics, Ballet and Cheerleading and the boy played Soccer.

Today, I suffer from vertigo, so skating of any sort is probably not a good idea. I skated last about five years ago, at age 67!

When I was a child I so wanted to go to ballet classes. There was a series of books I used to read about a family of girls who went to classes and I longed to be one of them! However, it was during the War (giving my age away now - 83 actually!) and I don't even know if there were any classes in the Glasgow area, plus we probably couldn't have afforded it anyway.

It probably would have meant that I would have a nice straight back now - but maybe not! I still wish I had been able to have the opportunity.

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I had a fabulous holiday in Finland staying with some lovely people and have also welcomed women travellers from Oz and Brazil to stay with me. It's a great organisation!

Always wanted to spend a couple of spring months travelling round the Greek islands. I'm very fit and capable- but obviously too lazy to do anything about my dream holiday. Sad or what...

I'm still dreaming of the two-wheeler bike I was promised by my Godmother when I was 6 years old - it never materialised and my parents were not able to afford one themselves. So I never learnt to ride a "grown-up" bike" !
Now though my main dream which remains unfulfilled is that we had considered moving to Austria many years ago (before they joined the EU). It was so difficult then, that we shelved the idea. We have enjoyed over 40 holidays in Austria, but I often wonder what might have been - sigh!!

When I was young I so much wanted to be a doctor. I had a place at medical school, but Dad wouldn’t hear of it - he didn’t believe in women doctors, and as we were under our parent’s control until 21 in those days I had to obey.
He allowed me to become a nurse, which I loved, but I still hankered after becoming a surgeon. When I reached my majority, I again had the chance to go to medical school, but by this time I had married, and DH wasn’t going to support me through university- he wanted my wage packet each month!
So there you are, ladies - never let men dictate to you. I have only myself to blame - I could have rebelled and followed my dreams, but I hadn’t the guts to defy the ‘men in charge’.
Thank goodness things have changed for girls nowadays, but now they have terrible financial constraints which may deny them a professional education. It’s a shame when we have such a need of good doctors.

B9exchange I was going to write the same. You 3 who fancy NZ Aus trip, get together and go. NZ is a fabulous country