waste so much and gain so little

How much do we waste? Is it just during our younger years when we are nothing but "punk" kids, or older when we buy the $30,000 suv. hmmm. I have been pondering this, we waste our time, our money and our heart on the most stupid stuff. When we are younger we dream of becoming great people, and what changes from then to now? Nothhing, the society that we call ourselves free put so many barriers on us and then through the years we see that we are insignificant, but that is not true. What stops us from doing what we wanted to do so long ago? Nothing just ourselves and I feel that all this waste and luxuries we have are just trying to make up for what we thought we lost, our dreams. My father although stubborn and somewhat seems to be idiotic at times is a very smart man. He told me, "Without our dreams we just float through life." It's true and we get this idea that we are hopeless so we do really stupid stuff until we relize when we are old, if we are lucky enough of all the time we have wasted, all the money spent on stuff that didnt matter, and all the people we could have loved. It's a real shame that we have to grow up and hear all this insignificant bullshit. (pardon french) Think how much we could do if everyone thought that they mattered.