I would be lying if I said I never thought about the
future. We have all done it since we were little kids. We thought about what
our house would look like, our career, and what we would name our children.
Lately though, I find myself so wrapped up in the present and my plans for the next
year that thinking about ten years down the road is on the back burner. Can I
really picture myself ten years from now? If I do it won’t be accurate. No
matter how clear the picture I have in my head of my life when I’m almost
thirty is, I know when it arrives the picture will be different.
I know in the next ten years I will continue my
education. God willing, I will love the medical field as much as I anticipate
and continue to medical school after I receive my bachelor’s degree. In ten
years, I will be finished with medical school and doing a residency either in
pediatrics or oncology. I hope to have found someone to spend the rest of my
life with whether we are married yet or not. I know I want to wait until later
to have kids because of my job, but life has a way of twisting our plans and I
could be married and have three kids by that point for all I know. I see myself
happy with whatever I am pursuing in life. I also see myself still trying to
figure everything out, I’m not going to fool myself by thinking I will have my
life tied up in a neat little bow before I’m thirty. I don’t have the floor
plan for my custom built house or an idea of the city I want to end up in.
If there is one thing I’ve learned in the last few
years, it’s that the things I want now may not be the same as what I want ten
years or even ten months from now. Honestly, I love the idea of not knowing how
my life will be in ten years. There is no way I can predict the obstacles and opportunities
that will come my way and the possibilities are endless. In ten years, the only
thing I can see with confidence is contentment.
i agree 100% with this post. i don't think about much other then what is happening right not and on some days i don't even think about that. well maybe 80% cause i don't make much of anything for plans.ok maybe 75% because i don't understand some of the words you used on this thing
ReplyDeleteLaura, I too like the idea of not having life exactly planned out. Granted, I would like to know a little beforehand when things are going to happen. I am pretty okay with working through the situations life hands me, no matter how much I gripe and complain. I think you'd make an excellent doctor. Hopefully if you go with oncology I'll never have to see you, but if my kid is sick I'll definitely hit you up in peds!
ReplyDeleteP.S. Tyler, your comment cracked me up.