...My Reality...
I was asked by a good friend
"Where do you see yourself in 10 to 15 years from now? Not where do you want to be, but where do you seriously see yourself?"
Well, as much as I want to say that I see myself as a sucessful lawyer, married to a wonderful man, with at least one beautiful child; I can't.
In 10 to 15 years, I'll be 25 to 30 years old.
Just out of college, I'll have passed the bar exam, but I'll have married at 21, to at the time, what seemed like an incredibly sweet man, but who turned into a raging alcoholic, and an abusive husband only a year or two into the marriage. After joining a fairly decent firm, I'm forced to quit because my husband doesn't approve of what I do, and wants me to stay home with the baby (which I'll have had about a year after we had been married). My husband will be "working" during the day, and "working" all night. He'll come home hungover, and angry at me every morning, and will beat me for a half an hour, then leave to go "work", when he's really going to go and be with he cheap whore, and he'll be out all day. He'll go to bars at night, find another cheap whore for himself, drink, spend the night, and come home the next morning, and beat me again. While I'm home during the day, I'm trying to take care of "our" baby, even though I'm covered in bruises, and cuts. I've of course tried to leave this monster man before, but the only result is more beatings, more bruises, more cuts. Eventually, the man I had married will die, most likely from the alcohol. I'll be alone with a kid, and I'll die alone.
Sorry guys, but that's how I see my reality...