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What do you want to be?

I remember this question being posed to me directly or indirectly growing up in Bombay, India. The implied sub-text here is 'when you grow up?' Now a couple of things worth expanding here - 1. 'Wanting to be' is as vague a notion in many an adolescent or grown (more on that next) person shaped by society and circumstance rather than some inner zeal or epiphany that perhaps a few chosen people have; 2. 'When you grow up' is the other mysterious part of the question. What the heck does it really mean? I for one have not yet done so. Growing up that is. Partly because I think I am not entirely sure what the definition of that term is. If it relates to certain physical characteristic or the ability to attend to one's ablutions on their own without assitance then I suppose I qualify. Beyond that I believe we are always growing. Learning. Adapting and hopefully getting smarter for it. Questions above sometimes are interpreted in society (largely Asia...