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What Would You Change?

When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? I wanted to be a singer. 🎤 I remember my dad telling one of his friends, "I could turn her into a singer if I wanted to." An odd memory. Or did I dream it? I tend to think it happened because I remember thinking later, "Then why didn't you?"🧐

I loved to sing. I loved music. 🎶Listened to it all the time. But I never remembered my dad saying anything else. Now, my mom wanted the two us to be the Judds. A mother and daughter singing team. Yet, she never made any effort to make it happen.

Then I wanted to be writer. I remember writing a song at 10 years old called "Catastrophe". 🤯The chorus went something like "C-A-T-A-S-T-R-O-P-H-E.....catastrophe...that's all you've been to me." I could have been the one to teach the masses how to spell catastrophe just as Gwen Stefani taught us all how to spell bananas🍌....B-A-N-A-N-A-S...you sang the letters in your head didn't you? 😂

I wrote poems, stories, read my funny stories to my mom to make her laugh. I LOVED writing. ✍️It was my outlet. But back then the only way I knew to be a writer was to write a book. Who was I to try and become a best selling author?

I had the conversation with my son not long ago and I was explaining to him that I would have loved to have a career in a creative world. That my parents supported going to college 📚but beyond that I was on my own. To them a degree=money. And then I went and picked a career that was a calling....not a moneymaker 🤑...being a therapist.

I wasn't satisfied there either so I found other ways to help people. I have been blessed to help many people. But what if...and hear me out...my parents had fostered my creativity. 💫Where would I be today?

I fully recognize we cannot change the past and I know my parents did the best they could. This is why it's so important for me to support my kiddo in his dreams. 🤩I want to support parents and help them listen 🙉to their kids and help their kids find a career they love.

What did you want to be when you were growing up? Did you get support for it? What would you have liked to have from your parents to make that dream come true?

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