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Missed opportunities
| Thu, 01-19-2012 - 8:17pm |
We all have them in our past. Maybe it's a guy we wish we had said yes to. Maybe it's a scholarship we didn't take or a club we didnt join. Of course, all of our choices (and non-choices) got us where we are today, but if there were one opportunity you wish you had taken (or maybe one you would have liked to have), what would it be?
I'm watching the American Idol episode from last night (fast forwarding through most of it) and thinking about all the opportunities I wasn't given in high school, especially in choir. I worked very hard, but it seems like everything I worked for was yanked from me by a teacher/coach/director. It taught me that no matter how hard you work or how much you think you deserve something, you can't always have it. Now that I'm older, I kind of wish that I could just once show the people who told me I wasn't good enough that I AM. I wonder if that's the motivation behind a lot of the people who try out on the show. Maybe they really just want to prove something.
I'm watching the American Idol episode from last night (fast forwarding through most of it) and thinking about all the opportunities I wasn't given in high school, especially in choir. I worked very hard, but it seems like everything I worked for was yanked from me by a teacher/coach/director. It taught me that no matter how hard you work or how much you think you deserve something, you can't always have it. Now that I'm older, I kind of wish that I could just once show the people who told me I wasn't good enough that I AM. I wonder if that's the motivation behind a lot of the people who try out on the show. Maybe they really just want to prove something.
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Molto bene.
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