Five years from now.
Just got out of my home group NA meeting.
There was a woman celebrating five years clean. She was sitting next to her husband with her toddler on her lap making trouble. Where I will be at five years clean? I've got nine months right now. Nine months since I started living again. I'll be 26... graduated from college by then. That's the plan. Where will I be living? Wherever I will be in Olympia? Somewhere else? I didn't really think very far ahead when I was using or in general during that period of my life. Everything I wanted, I wanted but I didn't have all that much confidence that I was going to get it. I had ambition but not really how I was going to get there. Will I be married by then? Have a kid? Will I be doing something I love? Activism or maybe... gasp, a career? Both?
I'm not sure.
There was a woman celebrating five years clean. She was sitting next to her husband with her toddler on her lap making trouble. Where I will be at five years clean? I've got nine months right now. Nine months since I started living again. I'll be 26... graduated from college by then. That's the plan. Where will I be living? Wherever I will be in Olympia? Somewhere else? I didn't really think very far ahead when I was using or in general during that period of my life. Everything I wanted, I wanted but I didn't have all that much confidence that I was going to get it. I had ambition but not really how I was going to get there. Will I be married by then? Have a kid? Will I be doing something I love? Activism or maybe... gasp, a career? Both?
I'm not sure.