People who know, from childhood, what they want to do with their lives

People who decide when they're like 12 that they're going to be a doctor so they go out and become a doctor, with no questioning their direction or digressions.

I think there's something weird about this but I also admire these people and wish I had some kind of goal guiding my life that way.

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Though I guess you only hear about the success stories, the people who decided they were going to be a comedian when they were 10 and now they're a famous sitcom star. You don't hear about the people who decided they were going to be a comedian when they were 10 but aren't very funny so now they're 45 years old, bussing tables at comedy clubs and closing open mics.

people who know... what they want to do with their lives are bad enough but yeah

Are these people insane? Or broken in some way? I've thought about this before but what brought it back was the WTF episode with Judd Apatow where he basically decided when he was like 13 or 14 that he was going to be a comedian and then exerted all of his energy towards that goal, like he had blinders on. But for him it seemed like it was mainly a reaction to his parents' divorce and wanting to have control over his own life in a time when he felt like control was lost.

Yeah, I admire and envy this, too: not just that these people don't have to do the soul-searching and flailing around that the rest of us do, but that they're so determinedly passionate about whatever it is they want to do. I sometimes wish that there was one thing that captured my interest so strongly (though I also sort of like being dilettantish, too).

One of the people that comes to mind is a friend of mine from high-school, who recovered from cancer when she was a small child and thereafter decided she was going to be a doctor -- in part, I think, out of some desire to give back to the medical community that saved her life. She took on a rigorous high-school curriculum, got accepted to M.I.T., and is currently a practicing surgeon in Boston.

;_; I'm not THAT weird, guys

my friend mitch wanted to be an urban planner ever since he was 6. he would pop insane scores on sim city and his mom set himself up a meeting with one of the most influential developers in the US. he works for the county of LA now living the dream.

but basically hes fucking crazy. he smokes a ton of weed and kinda looks like kramer.

I wanted to be a journalist from about as young as I can remember. But by about 18 I sort of knew it wasn't really news I wanted to work in, then further drifts happen. I should be v pleased with where I work but it's not my dream. I don't have one cos nothing really replaced that initial feeling of wanting to be a journalist. (not as grim as it sounds, maybe something will come along, I just feel weird doing a job that sounds like a dream that isn't.")