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So, I guess no one has seen The Up Series. You all should, really. It's quite fascinating and has really helped me figure out what it is that I want out of life.
Being a young person, you, or at least I, tend to.. believe you have all the time in the world to do what you want to do, make the kind of living you want to, get married, have a family, what have you. You really don't though. You don't have time to not go to school or to sit around on your bum thinking that you're young and have the time to do nothing.
Where are people with certain kinds of mindframes going to end up?
Myself and Christian as examples:
It would've been so much easier to know we were not going to work together from earlier on if we had talked about things. One conversation I remember (last summer when I was having to make the hardest decision of my life), was.. my telling him that anyone's dreams can become reality. It's not black and white. They're not two whole separate things. If you work hard enough and want it hard enough.. you really can do just about anything you want. And he said to me... no. Dreams and reality are separate. You have to know what you can and cannot do. What is reasonable and what is just plain silly.
It's all very interesting.. and I've put a lot of thought into where I want to be by the time I'm thirty, you know? What do I want to be doing.. what kind of income do I want.. where do I want to live.. do I want to get married.. have children.. and what kind of lives do I want to be able to provide for them?
Of course, I've thought about all of that before.. who hasn't? I just didn't realize how little time you have to set the foundation for your perfect life.
I didn't realize that.. college is the time.. It's the time when you're around the most people. My mum tells me she wished she'd known that. It's the best and easiest time in your life to find your life partner. And it's certainly the easiest time to figure out what you want to do and how you want to get there.
My mum told me I was very practical today. I think it's the first time she's ever said anything close to that.
Wow.
:10 RANDOM THINGS ABOUT ME:
1. I've got my head in the clouds.. and my feet on the ground at the same time.
2. I want to live in the countryside, but am not sure where.
3. The British Pantry is my favourite place to eat (and buy yummy snacks, of course).
4. Horses amaze me. I've never been more intruiged my an animal. I fully intend to own a few of my own.
5. I'm the worlds pickiest eater with a British-sized appetite and always have.
6. I've always been a farm girl at heart... just one who adores cashmere and wears Burberry glasses.
7. Interior design, arcitecture, and carpentry have always been secret obsessions of mine.
8. I change my idea of how I want to look every single day.. but rarely do anything about it.
9. I'm terrified of aging horribly.
10. I've always wanted to turn out just like my mum.. but I'll never be as amazing as she is.
:9 WAYS TO WIN MY HEART:
1. Be creative. Have some sort of creative spark in you.
2. Ambitions. It's not enough to HAVE dreams and goals.. you have to do the things necessary to make that happen.
3. Knowledge. It's easy to say you're smart, but that's not all it is.. it's also how you use it.
4. Love. Love not only for me.. but for yourself and all of the things around you... INCLUDING NATURE.
5. Morals. We all must have some sort of morals.. and so must you.
6. Mystery. You can't be all-telling. I like a mysterious aspect to the person I love. A puzzle, if you will. If I have nothing to figure out and solve.. I'm not going to stay interested very long.
7. Class. Some level of class is very important to the success of a relationship with me.
8. Open mind. You're allowed to have your opinions and I'm allowed to have mine. They don't have to be exactly the same. You shouldn't respect me any less for mine as I would never respect you any less for yours.
9. Independance. This one is perhaps one of the most important ones. If you are not independant.. we are not going to work. I NEED MY SPACE.. I want my space. And I want you to want the same, as well. I don't want to constantly be smothered by you because, really, it'll just cause me to hate you in the end.
:8 THINGS I CARRY/WEAR EVERYDAY:
1. Mobile
2. Glasses
3. Keys
4. Fags
5. Purse
6. Kiehls lip balm
7. Credit cards
8. Pen
:7 THINGS THAT ANNOY ME:
1. Being interrupted or ignored.
2. Not being taken seriously when I'm very serious about something.
3. People telling me who I am and what I want and how to do it.
4. Clutter.
5. Copious amounts of noise when I'm trying to do something important.
6. The majority of americans.
7. People claiming to be what they are not as to look "cool." The end result being that they hurt what people are pure and truly just that.
:6 PLACES IVE VISITED OR INTEND TO:
1. North Dakota is nice.
2. Wyoming is beautiful.
3. I would like to go to England.
4. and Ireland.
5. Scotland.
6. and Greece.
:5 THINGS I WANT TO DO BEFORE I DIE:
1. Honour my family in the form of tattoos.
2. Explore the world.
3. Own nearly every kind of animal you can own.
4. Build a pirate ship.
5. Give my potential children the education and background to succeed.
:4 THINGS I'M AFRAID OF:
1. Losing my footing.
2. Not achieving that which I've worked for.
3. Not living life to the fullest.
4. The extinction of the coffee and cocoa beans.
:3 THINGS I DO EVERYDAY:
1. Shower.
2. Morning/evening routines
3. I'd say, take my pills.. but I most definitely don't. I forget.
:2 THINGS I WOULD DO WITH $1 MILLION:
1. Save it.
2. Remodel my parents' house so they can finally move (my parents' house would be close to a million after being remodeled, anyway).
:1 PERSON YOU WANT TO SEE RIGHT NOW:
1. Nobody.