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Watching the storm roll in, illuminating the house when lightning flashes, I'm feeling contemplative, mostly to do with the fact that this is not only the first day of a new year but also of a new decade and it feels important.
Where will I be in ten years? This last decade feels as though it's passed by so quickly, even though it really hasn't. I started high school in 2000, and here I am at the other end with a degree and having almost completed my first year of nursing. I still have a lot of growing up to do, of course, but looking back on the person I was a decade ago shows me how far I've come and how much I've grown. I was going to say "how much I've changed", but I'm not sure that I spent ten years changing, rather I spent ten years becoming the person I am now.
So, in 2020, I'll be 31, at least when the new year rolls around. By that time I'd like to have started a family and bought a house. I'd like to have furthered my career, done post graduate study, become a really good nurse. Most important of all, I'd like to still be as much, as deeply, as desperately in love with Alex as I am now and have been for the last five years.
I feel like I should set myself some goals for the next year, though, because while my plans for the next ten years are general and nebulous, there are specific things I want to achieve and making a list is always helpful; come winter I can look back on it and think "aha".
-Find and move into a place with Alex
-Get a cat
-Travel overseas with Alex
-Become a better cook and house-looker-after-er (I suspect I may be a little more motivated with the last part when I'm only cleaning up after Alex and myself)
-Become better friends with people I know, and meet and make new friends
-Continue to improve at ballet- this includes continue to have better posture, as mine is shocking
-Improve my Russian
I'm sure there's more I can add, but right now, we're watching the lightning and eating corn chips with leftover pasta sauce.
Where will I be in ten years? This last decade feels as though it's passed by so quickly, even though it really hasn't. I started high school in 2000, and here I am at the other end with a degree and having almost completed my first year of nursing. I still have a lot of growing up to do, of course, but looking back on the person I was a decade ago shows me how far I've come and how much I've grown. I was going to say "how much I've changed", but I'm not sure that I spent ten years changing, rather I spent ten years becoming the person I am now.
So, in 2020, I'll be 31, at least when the new year rolls around. By that time I'd like to have started a family and bought a house. I'd like to have furthered my career, done post graduate study, become a really good nurse. Most important of all, I'd like to still be as much, as deeply, as desperately in love with Alex as I am now and have been for the last five years.
I feel like I should set myself some goals for the next year, though, because while my plans for the next ten years are general and nebulous, there are specific things I want to achieve and making a list is always helpful; come winter I can look back on it and think "aha".
-Find and move into a place with Alex
-Get a cat
-Travel overseas with Alex
-Become a better cook and house-looker-after-er (I suspect I may be a little more motivated with the last part when I'm only cleaning up after Alex and myself)
-Become better friends with people I know, and meet and make new friends
-Continue to improve at ballet- this includes continue to have better posture, as mine is shocking
-Improve my Russian
I'm sure there's more I can add, but right now, we're watching the lightning and eating corn chips with leftover pasta sauce.