Are you who you want to be?

i am a happy husband and a happy father of a 5 year old boy. before this is not the life i wanted to be. but now that i have it i can say this is the life that is worth living. when i was younger since my parents are separated i am not thinking too much on entering in such relations. i wanted to be good in the playing bass guitar for that is what i am. i am a bassist in a band. though i am still a bassist, i work hard in able to give shelter and food for my family. i am happy and this is now the life i wanted to have.

I am getting there, but it was delayed for a time. I have not reach my goal yet, but I will. There is one thing that I never hd, or rather two things, and am hoping for a miracle, but I need a husband to do that as I am a widow and not young yet even though my mind is. AS for the financial stuff, I have to work for it. So it is just the money or lack of it that holding me back and of course, not having a husband.

I'm already 43 and i could say i have already reached half of what suppose to be my life-span here on earth, but mind you, i am still dream and wish for things that i want to be and have in this life. It is not because i have failed with a lot of things, it is just because while you are still alive, HOPE is there. we could plan things, we can have what we want, we can create, we can be what we want to be, whatever goals we may achieved, yet i believe that our ultimate satisfaction is not here on earth, it is something divine.

Every body has dream.when we are young,we are idealist.in fact we live in a real society.we have to do something we don't want.so some times we are not what we want to be.I try to and endeavour to.

I loved all Switchfoot's songs since their first album release. It really touches once heart and i can totally relate to those warm lyrics. most of their lyrics reflect their Christianity that's why their songs are very inspirational and meaningful. they totally rock!

me? a priest...didn't happen; a pastor, still praying for God's leading; a missionary? i am, while teaching ESL... then a music maker, I am still writing and hoping to record these songs someday... some of the songs get played in the places i go... and though they aren't officially recorded yet, feedbacks say these songs inspire...thanks to the Holy Spirit's leading... I know God wrote my life story this way...and yes, he gave me a few pages here and there for freedom, and lots of white ink to erase mistakes...and wisdom to go on writing, finishing it up towards life's zenith - His glorification. I am becoming who i want to be...my metamorphosis has a way to go, in God's time.

I love switchfoot, but it has been so long since I heard them, I had to them up on youtube...I haven't met my goals early in life, but I am striving for those goals now. Thanks for the reminder, I'll have to make a playlist for this group..

I sometimes wish I could have had more of a life for me not just my family but then I would have the close net relationships like I do now. I could what if all day but things would have been all screwy and not as comfortable as they are now. So I think I am happy with how things turned out. The song seems up lifing.

Right! Hello Staria, I have no regrets, as you say, but once I´d like to became a doctor. My parents got divorced, they always were at their office... and they got divorced, and my brother and I were alone so much time... so... I realized then, that I just wanted to be a really good commited mother with my children and a lovely wife with my husband. And I´m still fighting to reach this goal... =) Blessings!... Dainy

I have left a lots of dreams behind!...I had 4 children to rise on my own after I had to leave my husband because of his abusive behaviour... thank goodness it's all over and done with...my children are all grown up and pursuing their own careers...my job as a parent is done! I have no regret! but some times I wish we could go back and make a better choice...but then life is like a river it only goes down the stream what ever you can hold when passing by it will be waiting for you at the end.

I don't think I am what I want to be carrier and future wise, but I am what I want to be in character and personality (considering we can choose what we want in personality). There are several things that I long for that I know a fat chance for me to reach them. I tried, but I know my capability and my sources, so I tried to be happy with what I have and what I am, now. Unless there will be a miracle that would make me reach more of what I want...

I am not familiar with that song, but I like Switchfoot, so I'll go search for the song later! I don't think I have settled in terms of who I wanna be, and I think I wouldn't for a long time. But, getting there has been fun, and though most of what and who I am now it not exactly what I've planned before, there are only a few minor regrets.

Its pretty good some songs do say about our lives and it get to us really hard and we realize what we really doing.

just as the saying goes,you can not please everybody just as you wanted and trying to please yourself for the outcome of what you are right now. I DID dream a very simple life and planned for the future of my own family, but it is true that you will never know what is ahead of you. It is not bad planning but in the long run,you will realize that you need to accept the way you were lead to ending up for what you are in and who you are right now,FEELING SORRY would not be healthy in boosting your triumph to go on accepting the outcome of yourself, from one to ten just rate your acceptance average for there are still with us to be thankful for, your family. And therefor;yes,I DONT WANT MYSELF NOW BUT I SHOULD AND I MUST LIKE IT BECAUSE GOD allows it that way... trust HIM for he will never leave you.

Personally there are some things I wish could have been different than what they have been and some things in life I know I have not achieved. Personally I do still have some Goals and dreams I am really wanting to achieve, and know it is really up to me from here to one day be able to obtain them. It sometimes is a really big piece of work but will be so worth it in the end. In reality, I am Happy with a lot of where my life has gone. Just will be truly Happy if I can one day achieve my long life dreams and goals as well.

Nothing has turned out the way I expected it to. I am not the person I thought I was. I have been lost for such a long time and still trying to work out who i am and what I'm supposed to be doing here. Reckon I lost the plot when I was about 2 years old. I'm relatively content now with where I am but still don't know myself. Life is hard and you need parents who are really good teachers. Mine weren't.

Well I can certainly say that wish I knew then what I know now! As I’ve grown older I have reset my priorities and I have learned to “feel fear and do it anyway”! It’s taken years of practice but I am getting there in good time LOL! I have learnt the art of gratitude and to focus on all the wonderful things in my life instead on what may be missing.

Nice topic my friend..for me if we talk of material sufficiency I never reach yet what I desired but speaking of spiritual life am already sure and contented of where I stand right now. No regrets. But life is full of trials and hardships which always the twin of each and every one while we are still alive. Am not an hypocrite I need and every one needs money but not to the point to be really rich, because I am afraid that lots of money would made me change, who knows. I wanted just enough, sufficient enough for my daily needs. More power my friend. Mobhomeir here..

I think I am not ready to answer this question. Because if I did, I think I'll get disappointed with my answer. There are still a few things in my life that are still not in order, YET. But I know (I hope), that in a few years I would be ready. Ready to say that I am who I wanted to be.

I am now a father of two, to be a father is not a joke couse you have a big dutyi to guide and mold the kids to the right ways and to grow a good man. Thats the one i want to be, a good father and a simple human being and to follow the will of God.