Childhood Ambitions...

[the_calcium_tm]

When I was fairly little, I'd decided that I wanted to help people.

Supposed it was simple enough, really. It couldn't be that hard to do right by others for a long time. Mean, it wasn't like I wasn't going to have my own time and all that. I didn't have any sort of ambition to hop off and cure diseases or solve crime or anything that I probably couldn't've accomplished even if I tried especially hard. I was always thinking just big enough. That's something my dad taught me -- you can't dream too big, but you can't also think too small, either. There's a sort of balance, yeah? Right there in the middle, there's a balance.

My balance was Lambeth. That's what I wanted to do: help people in Lambeth. It was just big enough to be hard to accomplish, and that I'd need to work to get there, but it was small enough so that when I woke up in the morning and start looking for the bright bits of my day and at the people around me, I could almost sort of taste it a bit. Like I was almost, almost there. It was almost sort of perfect, really.

Of course, then there was the bit where I wanted to be a superhero and fly, but I suppose that was a different sort of ambition altogether.