has your life gone anything like you planned??

[AndyJ27]

When I was younger and at school, I saw myself ending up as a PE teacher at a high school during the week and playing top level rugby as well. Everything I did was pointing toward this goal. When I was 15 - 17, I was training 6 days a week, including weights, training with different squads I was in etc...but now I am 27 and it would seem that I am doing things I never even considered.

Anyone living their adolescent dream??

[urso8up]

Nope not one thing i had planned when i was younger is in my life . Well one thing I have a wonderful son. But I planned to have a great job and have a wonderful wife and a nice big house. Well One out of three is not al lthat bad i guess. My job is good just would rather be doing something else. Just got divorced so the whole wonderful wife thing is out the window. But like i said i wanted a Son and I have the most wonderful 2 year old boy one could ask for. Now he is my life.

[AsianPersuasian]

I am a complete opposite of what I said I was going to do when I grew up. I don't think that many people actually do what they plan.

[jipped genes]

no, i didnt know what i wanted until i had a family and it would be very hard to go back to school.

[spike1205]

so far so good, im in my last year of law school, just finished my first triatlon, have a good gf that i love and willprobably marry--im doing pretty well

[njjuicer]

not at all i wnet totall 180 lol not ina good wya either LOL but tis all good now im goin in right direction

[velvett]

Never had a plan - just sort of followed my heart

[Gongshow]

Im still to young to answer this question I think! lol

[AndyJ27]

Is funny cause my best friend has followed his life plan almost to the letter, apart from he got married at 20 instead of 18. A large majority of my friends have stayed very much on track to what they always planned, but have never left our home town and never lived away from their folks too far.

I started to think perhaps I was the weird one by moving away at 18, coming back at 24 and living in a few different places in between, and not oding the job I told everyone in high school I was going to do.

Good to know I am not so unique

[Doom]

Actually sometimes Im absolultly amazed Im still alive
But life has gotten better, and hopefully it will continue on this course

[kwik20r]

Our desires change as our perspectives on life develop and our experiences mold us... Damn, put it like this, when I was a kid, I wanted to be a fighter pilot, lol (too many movies I guess). As a teenager, I had major issues with authority, probably because of the fact that I was into some serious shit, so the military idea was out... Late teens, on my own, I always managed to make things happen at the last minute when I needed to, so I figured it would all just come together for me. Now, at 24, with a whole world out there to learn from and an infinite amount of knowledge to try and benefit from, I have different aspirations. I'd like to finish my education, for starters... Didn't much care about that in highschool or the year of college I decided to take at 19 (hell, the cash from selling had to go somewhere), so thats changed... Don't have the connections to go into the acting industry or the inclination to start at the bottom and work up to it, which is something else I contemplated as a teen.

Long story short... no, I'm not where I expected to be or imagined I might be... my life is rich with experiences from all the shit I was involved with and I feel Doom when he says "I'm amazed I'm still alive.", but you live and learn... lessons learned = time well spent. I feel good about the path I'm walking now, thats whats important.

[rodman9866]

well the only thing i have planned is to be debt free by the time i reach 25.

im 23 right now and so far i have paid off my brand new 2003 car, paid off my entire school loans (Except one little one that will be finihsed by the end of this year) and paid off all major credit card debts.

i always figured id be in some kind of technical field even as a child and im an engineer so that part came true...........does that make me a predicatable and boring person?????

[LauLau418]

My life is the complete opposite of what I imagined it to be...

But I couldn't be happier as to the way things have turned out so far!!

[Hollywood]

Not me, never would have imagined being in the air force, and now that I'm in, I wouldn't have it any other way!

[Blackdream71]

Nope, sure never would have imagined how my life has ended up........

[Puddles]

When I was younger I couldn't have imagined my life turning out as wonderful as it has. I wanted simple things...a loving husband, a child or two and a nice home. My life has far exceeded my wildest expectations and I have my husband to thank for making it all happen.

[dreamgirl]

lets see, I graduated HS in '93, graduated college in '97, got married in '97, had first child in'00 and 4 YEARS LATER will be having child #2 '04. My job is in the field of art. I live in a house that is decorated with bright colors. I have a boat I can stay on. I drive a nice car...

It's exactly like what I had planned. I am so boring!!!

[teekahty]

when your young you dont have a plan ... you have dreams . Like, I want to be rich , I want to drive a porsche , and I don't want to work very hard ...... hey wait a minute ... My life is a dream . Knock on wood ... I did not have a plan , I rolled with it , whatever came , so be it... there was some interesting turns . I joined the friggin Marines ... Never in a million years did I see that coming ... but other than that , I have just kind of been like Gumby baby . Very Flexible!

[trip]

A few months before I turned 30 realized my life was nothing like I had dreamed it would be. Several months later, realized it was same thing for almost everyone I knew.

At 32-33 saw this pattern continuing.

At 34 changed it all. At 41 reached the dreams I set for myself at 18. The last decade has been the most fun enjoyable wild and crazy, like teek said, I was much more flexible and enjoyed the journey, which eliminated alot of stress and anxiety about the whole thing, which made it all happen faster and better, even if I couldn't see it at the time. If that makes any sense?

Whatever you do, just try and learn and grow from it, listen to yourself and not others.

Decide what makes you happy and do it, not what the crowd is doing.

If I followed the crowd I'd be 45 fat and watching the tube all the time, stressed out over the diabetes epidemic the media has been trumpeting for the last two months.

Instead I'm more of a kid than ever before, grown-ups bore me, arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, lol

don't fret, life gets better, you'll figure out what is important for you in due time, thatsa life

[TechnoBarbie]

GOOD LORD NO!!

[The_Jarhead]

The only thing I ever wanted to do growing up was be a Marine. Once I realized that could not stay in the service (at least as enlisted) and not be on food stamps. I got out and had no idea what to do with my life. I learned a good skill in the Corps and have a good job. Granted it’s boring as hell and I would rather do just about anything else.
I never would have thought as a kid that I would work on computers when I got older. Hell I didn’t even play video games when I was a kid.

[Faith]

Originally posted by Doom
Actually sometimes Im absolultly amazed Im still alive
But life has gotten better, and hopefully it will continue on this course

Doom, I can say the exact thing for me as well. I am sooo lucky to be alive right now, You learn great lessons in life, sometimes the hard way. No matter where we are in life we always tend to want more, now I have learned to be happy with what I have and always strive to be better, but not let it take over my life and enjoy, you never know what tomorrow brings you. A year ago I had a beautiful condo, I was in really good shape, I drove a car that I loved, bought right off the showroom floor, then some asshole had to destroy it all, But I was left with my life,and career, now I am starting all over again but I value the little things in life much more. And I have to add that friend's are one of the most valuable things in life to have. You can be rich and on top of the world, but without good friends it's worthless.

[Auriflex]

Wait, was I supposed to be planning something all these years? I better get on the ball!