sharad.gopal

As a kid, I often got asked, ‘So Sharad, what do you want to be when you grow up?’ Well as kids are, I never really paid too much heed to these questions and just rambled about the latest fads that I was obsessed with; and that I want to do something related to that. I, however, remember that at some point I had the answer to this question well prepared and I totally sounded confident as to what I wanted to be. This was my somewhat prepared answer, “I want to be a pilot when I grow up.” Well it sounded pretty interesting and it was obviously darn ambitious for a young kid to say that. I figured that it did impress everyone, but looking back at that time, I often wonder why did I chose to say, that I want to be a pilot, when I obviously could say stuff like, “I want to be a …..doctor, engineer, lawyer, teacher, and a million different things”.

I don’t quite have the answer, and I guess I never will, however I’d like to share my insights to what I thought of airplanes before I had never been on one: I used to think that to travel in a plane you had to be shrunk, and was really freaked out by the idea of someone shrinking me. And when I finally traveled on a plane from Bombay to Mangalore (My first trip, I still was pretty young), I remember demanding that I get to sit near the window, only to get scared midway (thinking I might fall off) and then demanding that I be shifted to the aisle seat. When I think back to stuff like this, I really appreciate all the people in my life, especially my family for making me have such awesome memories from childhood. And finally, I am currently studying to be an engineer and came across this hilarious video, so I thought I’d share it with you.

What did you want to be as a kid?