Dream Killers and Growing Up.

Tom Leykis has for years said that wives and kids are 'dream-killers' for men, in that they essentially take up so much of a man's time on the responsibilities of taking care of them such that he doesn't have any time to pursue his own ambitions.

A very similar notion is played out in the idea that kindergarten is the first real aspect of life where a child's innocence is lost (i.e.where they have to start growing up), and where things like independant thinking, and creative innovation are stifled.

While I agree with both of these to a large extent, I don't fully do so.

I think that each condition is really a test of one's resolve; a way of really determining whether one has will, the fortitude, and ... is willing to do what is necessary to see what they desire come about.

For me, it goes back to something Jock Ewing always said -

Any man can win when things go his way, it's the man who overcomes adversity that is the true champion.

Of course, life would be easy without them. To be born without having to really deal with those things can sometimes make one take things for granted.

To me, that is what 'dream-killers' and 'growing up' all about. They are are road-blocks meant to test our passions and pursuits - are we really determined to succeed despite having these things thrown in your path.