DAILY PROMPT: ABOUT PAGE OF THE FUTURE
Write the About page for your blog in 10 years.
One thing I’ve learned about life in the past 70 years is that it never turns out the way you expect. So there’s no way I can burble on about me at 80.
All this nonsense about five-year goals and ten-year goals – you’re kidding, right? Do you really think god, the universe, fate, you, or whatever other force you might subscribe to, will sit on its hands and let you get on with it unimpeded? Plans, dreams, aspirations, ambitions – have them all, as many as you can and a few more as backup, but above all, develop resilience.
Let me tell you a story.
When I was a kid, all I wanted to do was live by the sea and write.
Received wisdom said that since I was clearly not stupid (I’m still wondering about that) I should go to university, major in English, and then live by the sea and write. If that was their plan, I thought, I’d show them: I’d get my degree and trump it by going on to Oxford. (Obedient child meets rebel.)
And guess what? None of it happened. A bomb out of left field blew it all to smithereens, and there I was back at square one.
Drama school, next. An actress, I thought.
Nah. Didn’t have the balls for that.
Stage management. That was good. Loved it, found my niche.
Then I married an actor. Had kids. Thought living happily ever after, here I come! Until he, god bless him, became an alcoholic and died while the kids were still at school.
Need I go on?
Only to say that in my opinion, I’m damn lucky. Now I do live by the sea and write, I have the best family ever, every detour has taught me something, and we can all still laugh.
So carpe diem, folks. It’s the only certainty there is.
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I guess John Lennon had it right, “Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.” I hope I got that right, but if not, it’s darn close!
BB
It certainly was for him! Glad my detours weren’t quite so final.
I totally agree…. I sure didn’t plan being where I am now. That’s why I made a tongue-in-cheek post based on everything being the same. But really, I plan on meeting a wonderful man who has lots of money and both of us staying healthy. How do you make God laugh? Tell him your plans.
I used to fancy having a sugar-daddy by correspondence. What do you bet he’d have posted me his sox to wash?