Ten Years
I’ve been ruminating about my future lately. Most of the time, I feel as if I have a solid foundation underfoot, and my life is going in the direction I want to see it go, but once in awhile I catch myself wondering if somehow I should be doing more. It’s like there is this check list of the basics in life,
significant other
family
friends
career
financial stability
general fulfillment
and so on,
and I have a nice check next to each one, and it’s allowing me to sort of coast along a little bit. Is there some way I could be doing more? Could I be changing the world around me in positive way more than I already am, if I even am doing so at all? Is it enough to have nailed down all the fundamental aspects of life, or should I be striving to “take it to another level,” or however one would say it in the Attitudinal Beliefs patois?
I asked myself– where will I be ten years from now? Will I still live here in my college apartment? Will I be doing the same job? Will I be married? Will I be a father? Just what will I be doing come 2014? Or will the Mayans have risen from the dead and eaten us all by then, so it won’t even matter? I didn’t have a very precise answer to any of those questions.
Nothing else in this world seems to stay the same, so who is to say that the person I am right now won’t also be subject to that state of eternal flux that plagues everything else. Whatever is taken for granted today could be gone tomorrow, or I may lose the things I need later on; or they might not even be there in the first place. I have no idea what I am talking about anymore.
My life is great right now, but it could probably be even better. I hope ten years from now I can re-read this blog and say without a doubt that I bettered my life since authoring it.
Today’s Question: Ten years from now. You. Well?
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I don’t know what i’ll be and where i’ll be in 10 years, and I do not plan to think about it.
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hey, i was wondering if i could have the codes of your background music cuz i kinda like tat song..thanks a lot..
no clue. i haven’t even nailed down a major yet. someplace better than this trashy town. I can’t really compare it to anything, but bad things sure do happen here a lot. Sheesh. I shall be successful. Whatever I do will be a success because I refuse to do anything that doesn’t make me happy… and isn’t that the true measure of success????
Have a good week!
i’m hoping that i’ll still be in the bay area, and able to make my way to that restaurant that sells the atomic subs. maybe i’ll have figured out a way to only work 3 days a week and still have enough money to travel a lot. what about you?
@joyceil, Let’s go get Atomic Subs for lunch one day this week. F’realz!
You can’t know where you’ll be in a decade. Even THAT prediction fluctuates from day to day.
I hope I <3 my job by then. ;)
Can I steal The Cure's Pictures of You from your server for my xanga ? I just love this song. ~PK
@Dirti Martini, You can “steal” any old song you want. Just cut and paste the link from the entry where I listed the songs. Or tell me what song you want to link and I’ll put it on my server.
@Peasprout, yay for you. atomic subs next week?
I think you should play marching tunes.
you should eat pie AND SODA.
Dear 2004 Peasprout,
You have bettered your life in some ways since authoring this post, but it is hella sucking in many of the most important ways. I shall have to get my ass in gear so 2014 Peasprout can come back here and write something bragadocious.
Sincerely,
2010 Peasprout
p.s. You really should dump her right now.
How is it sucking in the most important ways? How will you change that?
@stelladora (the 2010 future one), Well you know– I don’t really *do* anything these days. I will change it by… ummm.. dunno. When I figure that one out I’ll like write a blog or something.