Twice this week the issue of "where do you want to be in five years" has come up in my life. I figure it's a sign I need to blog about it! :)
First off, I found paper I apparently wrote five years ago when I was in school at OSU all about where I'd be today. Here's a little portion:
There is very little that I know for sure about five years from today. I will definitely be a month shy of turning 26 years old. And I will probably not be doing anything that I have pictured in my mind now. If the curves in my life have taught me one lesson, it is that no matter what life throws at me, I can make it. Maybe life has bigger plans for me than I have for myself. There is only one prediction that I am willing to make about my life five years from now: I will be okay, wherever I am.
First off, I found paper I apparently wrote five years ago when I was in school at OSU all about where I'd be today. Here's a little portion:
There is very little that I know for sure about five years from today. I will definitely be a month shy of turning 26 years old. And I will probably not be doing anything that I have pictured in my mind now. If the curves in my life have taught me one lesson, it is that no matter what life throws at me, I can make it. Maybe life has bigger plans for me than I have for myself. There is only one prediction that I am willing to make about my life five years from now: I will be okay, wherever I am.
Second was a random occurance where I was tagged a blog posted by my friend who we'll refer to as Miss Canada asking me to list what I was doing five years ago and what I want to be doing five years from now. So here we go...What were you doing five years ago?
~Finishing my junior year at OSU and preparing to take the LSAT to apply to law school
~Loving life in Stillwater living in Casa Mia with College Roomie
~Getting ready to spend the summer working in Oklahoma and trying to learn to golf from BFF
~Trying to get up the courage to tell this one boy how I really felt
~Making fun of people who had facebook because I thought it was stupid. :) And I had never even heard of a blog.
What will you be doing five years from now?
~Hopefully still working as an attorney (yes, I still have the "please don't fire me!" thought every day!)
~Happily dating Mr. Right (who will, by that point, be un-lost from whatever forest he's circling now!)
~Volunteering for a cause that is imporant to me
~Traveling all over the world to see my favorite people and places
~Buying some land for my expanded cattle and sheep herds
So, from this I take the following: Wow....I was a pretty darn smart 21 year old! I'm not sure I've gotten any smarter in the five years since I wrote that paper. I still don't have a clue where my life will go. Plans change, bumps occur and we have to keep moving. I could honestly look ahead and see several different paths that my life could take....and I could see myself being completely happy in every one of them. I think that may be the curse of being a happy person--you genuinely don't know what it is you want because you can see so many different things could be good.
No matter how many of my list of 5 goals actually come true, I think I'll stick with my conclusion from 2005--maybe life has bigger plans for me than I have for myself. No matter where I am or what I'm doing: I'll be okay! Bring it on 2015!
What will you be doing five years from now?
~Hopefully still working as an attorney (yes, I still have the "please don't fire me!" thought every day!)
~Happily dating Mr. Right (who will, by that point, be un-lost from whatever forest he's circling now!)
~Volunteering for a cause that is imporant to me
~Traveling all over the world to see my favorite people and places
~Buying some land for my expanded cattle and sheep herds
So, from this I take the following: Wow....I was a pretty darn smart 21 year old! I'm not sure I've gotten any smarter in the five years since I wrote that paper. I still don't have a clue where my life will go. Plans change, bumps occur and we have to keep moving. I could honestly look ahead and see several different paths that my life could take....and I could see myself being completely happy in every one of them. I think that may be the curse of being a happy person--you genuinely don't know what it is you want because you can see so many different things could be good.No matter how many of my list of 5 goals actually come true, I think I'll stick with my conclusion from 2005--maybe life has bigger plans for me than I have for myself. No matter where I am or what I'm doing: I'll be okay! Bring it on 2015!
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