part of growing up and getting older is having a future. Where do you think
you will be in ten years? (We'll start small.) What will the world be like?
What sort of experiences do you think you will have had? How many children
will you have had a hand in?

51 responses total.

i really don't know in about 10 years...i'l  obly be 28 or 29...not
very old at all.  while i would like to have about 6 kids, it ain't haoppening
by that time!!!!

In ten years, I will be almost 28.  I'm hoping to be doing something
involving education and computer conferencing, my two great passtimes.  I
don't know whether I will have had any kids yet, but if I do, I won't have
a hand *in* them.

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ask me in ten years.  I really don't know, now.

In ten years, I'm guessing I'll be dead. I don't take good care of myself.

I hope not, face.

I hope nt either.
Not to sound morbid, but I adventure too much.

 I'n ten years I'll be 34 years old.

I don't care to speculate on what my life would be like at almost 40.

Almosty 40 will be rad.,

I hope I'll be working in theatre. Possibly Chicago, or New York.

If you'd asked me this question 10 years ago I wouldn't have had a clue.
now I can say this much: I'll be 41, fairly grey, I assume I'll have children, 
I hope I won't be living in Michigan (or do I?), and I hope I'll be in better 
shape than I am today.  I also hope I'll be producing either music videos,
long-form documentaries, or commercials.
I'll also feel really old I'm afraid.  

In ten years, I'll be exactly 28.  I will probably be working somewhere as
a research scientist <I hope, anyway>.  I'm not sure I want children at all,
but if I decide I do I want to have them before I'm 30.  I want to have a 
stable, happy relationship with someone who makes me laugh.

that's the best kind to have.  :)

I'm funny but I'm not very "good looking." (I'm no Brad Pit)

I can tell you, a sense of humor only goes so far.
(but let's not drift...)

don't worry...i'm not exactly anything special in the looks department
either...you just learn with it...and fuck society!

Learn to like the way you look!  

I don't think you look bad... if that helps at all...<Canis tries to be
comforting>

I'm generally happy with my appearance.  I just wish i could stop my beard 
from growing, at will.

In ten years I'll be (shudder) 32.  I'll be married...living in Israel...work-
ing for some major corpaoration, I'll have a @#$% load of kids, all of them
perfect...

In ten years I'll look exactly like Brad Pit.

In 10 years... I'll be gack 30.  Most likely married, possibly with
children. And hopefully a published author...

In 10 years I'll be 32.  I'm married now, and I'll probably have two littlions
running around.  I'll most likely be working in a hospital as a cardiac rehab
person or be the owner of a gym.  I'll look better than Brad Pitt..

In ten years, I for one will not look like Brad Pitt.

Hey, maybe in ten years I'll be a professor!  Then I'd probably look like
my dad with long hair! <rotfl>

In ten years I'll be 27. By then I'll probably be newly married receiving the
first copy of my first novel. (It will probably take me at  least three years
to write one.)   :)p
oops!

I don't even have plans for dinner... jeez...

Refusing to plan early saves a *lot* of bother when you tend to change
your mind a lot...someone remind me of that next time I try to plan more
than a week in advance, please?

In 10 years, I will be 25 years old. I have no plans. Either that, or I'll
be a singer/actor/teacher/lover/friend/and some others things I'll think
about later on. I do know that if within the next 10 years, I am *totally*
in love with someone, I will probably be married by then and possibly have
a child on the way.

In any event, why worry about this now? I can see why others might but
those people are 17 or 18 or older. Right now, I will just sit back,
relax, and enjoy the hell out of life. I'll wait another year, then
re-enter this item.

- Robert     o/~

that's sort of a good philosophy, but unfortunately, not one that is always
easy to adhere to....it's about this time that you ahve tos start taking
classes to prepare you for collage, etc.  as for the long list +, i like
that...at least you are willing to be openminded.  :)

I don't know how good a thing it is to be preparing for college years in
advance.  When I got to the point of trying to get into various colleges last
year I did wish I had worried more about my GPA in the past and things like
that, since it would have made the whole process a lot less stressful.  OTOH,
I'm really glad I left options open, and didn't concentrate too hard on any
one thing.  I've changed my mind about what I want to "do when I grow up" in
the last few years that if I had put too much effort into preparing for any
one of them I probably would have ended up pretty disapointed after finding
out that I had prepared for the wrong thing.  I think the most important thing
to realize about college, something that I wish I'd realized before wasting
all that time on, and getting so stressed out about, college applications,
is that college is something that does not have to be done right after high
school.  I'll probably end up going to college in another year or two, but
right now I'm taking time off from school to learn stuff.

In response to #28:
Well, I *sort of* agree with you. But I don't have to worry out it quite yet.
You saw my long list of "wanna-be" things. I am taking course that revolve
around that list. If I don't like it, I'll find out soon enough. Why worry!?

In response to #29:
Tha was a very intellegent response!

Boy, I can't spell tonite! :)

I think in life you should make a plan and make a back up plan and then
sorta let it sit in your mind while you do whatever seems ok :)  I mean
plan so you have a general idea, but not too much.  If you try to plan
out your entire life, you're more likely to be disappointed.

Sounds really familiar (this question...) I've had to answer it a 
bizzilion times these last few months as I've been applying for med school,
you realize of course that it is very hard to get into med school..
you must sound very convincing that you know what you want to do...
So I was glad that I actually do have "a plan".. I'm going to
be a family dctor somewhere... and just right out of medschool, too, 
because that thing takes FOREVER!!
But I have also been using that question to help my friends 
try and understand what it is that they want to do, I ask them
what they want to have in five years, and what they wan to have done
because then you can try and figure something out and it is not as bad as 
how some people get when they get out of college (where I'm at)
and they don't have a clue, they feel lost, adn that is bad...

ten years for med school? wow.

well med school itself is not that long, only four years
but then you have to do a residency which is anythign from three
to seven years more, and THEN you're really done, I think...

ah. so ten years from now, you'll be a sleep-deprived wreck. ;)

no, it is a lifetime of sleep deprivation...

No you just learn to sleep anywhere and anytime you can get sleep :)
It's very good training... teaches you to store up sleep over weekends if
possible :)

I'm terrible at that, you know?  But I really think I can still
hack being in med school... well, teh world (and me)
will just have to see!

If you survive med school, you'll learn to sleep when you can :) and be ready
to operate at all times :)

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