Join Me in Snarkville

When I was little (like 4 years old), if asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I’d tell anyone that I wanted to be a policelady in order to lock up all the bad people in this world.

Oh how I would dream that I’d take down some bad person, someone who had hurt someone else — because frankly to the 4 year old me and the 33 year old me, I can not fathom a greater crime than to hurt another person on purpose. So, I wanted to stamp out all the badness in this world and I felt that being a policewoman was the only way to do that. I also thought that being a policewoman would be a glamorous life because clearly I’d watched too much CHiPs.
I put that dream on the back burner and tried to decide between all the other things I wanted to be: an architect, a banker, a teacher, President, a buyer… the list is endless. But I grew up and left those dream careers behind. (more…)