"Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations."
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Don't we all? One of the fundamental goals of a child's (or adolescent's) life is to answer this question: "What do I want to be when I grow up?" The younger you are, the grander your answer will most likely be. A child under 10 years might wish to be a movie star, a super hero, or maybe a even president? And adolescent might settle for being a famous musician, or being a billionaire. Yet many adults just have a few things in mind, something along the lines of a good marriage, job security, or not being flat-out broke. Do people change so much in the span of ten or twenty years that they give up on their dreams? Or are we just seeing the gradual change of our own definition of 'grand'? Is the fact that we hold our simpler desires dear such a bad thing?