I'm moving this to the Freudian section, lol...because I think it's VERY relevant to a lot of the psychological issues many of us have.
I was exactly the same way. Your title of this thread is just too honest.
I wanted to already BE there, not have to learn. I wanted to BE a successful writer, not have to build a career as one. I wanted to conduct seminars and have people enthralled by my expertise (pause to laugh at me on this board, huh? lol)...but I didn't want to go to college to slowly work my way up to actually being a scholar.
I wanted my dreams fulfilled NOW, without the drudgery of boring daily laying of one brick on top of another (which is in reality, the only way ANYthing is built).
And if I could not have my dreams magically fulfilled? I'd settle for just fantasizing about everything. And that, living in my head with no foot in the world, set the stage for dp.
Peace,
Janine