4/2/09

The Future

What a hilarious phrase " THE FUTURE" I seriously feel like I am entering a sci-fi movie every time I say,write, or think that phrase.
What does it mean? Good question. I think it is different for everyone. Lately i was thinking about what the future is going to bring for me. I am not really sure.
I am one of those people who have always had it all figured out... or so I thought. I was going to grow up, go to college and spend time switching universities and countries. I would graduate with my degree in journalism and join the peace corp. The I would spend the next couple years of my life writing about my experience in the Peace Corp helping the less fortunate. When I was finished with hat I was going to go to Japan and teach English for a year, as well as continue my writings about my experiences. Somewhere in the midst of this, an amazing magazine would discover me and fall in love with my travel logs, they would hire me and I wold travel the world on their penny writing about the amazing things I saw. On the side I would be a writer for a music magazine like Alternative Press and hit up some shows to do live interviews with rock stars amidst my traveling. I would party with them at night, and travel the amazon by day. One day when I was nearing my forties I would fall in love with some beautiful foreign man and we would have a spur of the moment wedding and go sky diving for our honeymoon. He would travel with me and we would become the most successful couple to walk the plan et. I would then pop out a couple babies, design and build my mansion and settle down to write a few amazing novels and live out the rest of my life.
That didn't happen. I don't regret that it hasn't happened because a lot of those things can still happen. Just maybe not in that order, or in the way I imagined it. But you know what, that's okay. I have grown up, my dreams have changed, and I am happy. That's all that matters right?
But now, for the first time, I am left with out a plan. I have NO CLUE what the future is going to bring for me. Only time can tell.