If you could start again...

Let's do a little daydreaming! I read an article years ago about bipolar and creativity and I'm curious about all of your talents. Imagine you could do your life over and follow other passions and interests you had for a little while. [assume it's temporary and it's not a loss of what you have now, just a fun jump in reality! Don't look at this as a "what would I change about my life", but think of it more as "what would my life look like if I went another route?"]

What would you do for a living? For fun? What opportunities would you have jumped on in this alternate reality? Just curious to see what your responses may be!

I'd have probably ended up a pharmacist or hematologist as I had a lot of interest in those fields back in the day. How did I end up a language teacher? Who knows. lol.

Some hobbies and interests I would have become an author of short stories [even though I don't have much creative talent or want to write, I do find myself in moods I love to do it], and I would also probably have some mundane and non-unique hobby like coin collecting [which i could do in this life if I weren't poor lol].

The biggest alternative reality difference for me, though, if I would live in suburban town outside a large city somewhere northeast I think. That was always kind of a plan I never made happen that I still think I would have enjoyed!

My main ones (from youngest to later) included ballet dancer, China expert or business woman in China, Director of Sales (Asian Market), then Director of Communications. Perhaps since then I've dreamed of being a great blogger and maybe writer of books. Some of my thoughts for the future may include Airbnb property owner and operator in France.

I'm sorry. While you responded I edited my post and briefly answered your question. Perhaps my edited version is more what you were hoping for from someone.

The gardening is a beautiful dream and absolutely an attainable one.

If I had said yes to an organization I’d have ended up an RN living in the cities. Would have still ended up on disability as my back issues are organic.

If I had agreed to the extra lessons my piano class teacher offered me I could've been performing alongside my friends

Had I not moved in with my boyfriend (2 years later who became my husband) my dad would've kept paying for my college education and I could've gotten a music education degree and been a music teacher. I did try to go back to school a couple times but nursing school turned out to be too much with Anatomy and Physiology for my Swiss cheese of a brain. I also tried to audition again at the music school but got rejected. And now I wouldn't ever think of auditioning or finishing nursing school. My brain is like a duck's back- information just rolls off like water off a duck's back.

I guess this thread is depressing to me. I did all my great things in life before I was 35.

I would have ended up a theme park engineer fixing up the roller coasters for people to enjoy.

probably working at somewhere bigl ike disney or universal
I'd own a rabbit and a budgie and would go to watch wrestling at the stadium

I'm go on holiday to somewhere.... anywhere outside my own town

loads of stuff

I would have asked my parents for the $700 to continue my education. I would have had a BS in computer animation. Now where I was getting it from was useless but I could have done freelancing online. My original goal was to work for pixar. Instead I'm looking at tech schools with commercial art as that will have the same feel an enclosed classroom. 20 years later. I still plan to complete something some day.