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Is your life the way you imagined it when you were younger?
When you were in middle or high school (or even earlier) did you have visions of how your life would turn out as an adult? If so, has your life turned out the way you had imagined? If not, is it better than you expected or worse? Anything you could have done to make it different/better?
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Re: Is your life the way you imagined it when you were younger?
it's not better and it's not worse. it's just different. I wish I listened to my parents and wasn't so stubborn. life would be much easier now.
BETTER!
In high school, I clearly remember stating that I wanted to be married and have 3 kids by the time I was .................ready..............24!
(Sorry GHM!)
Now that sounds so daunting, I guess is the word --- and I thank my lucky stars that I never followed through with that notion.
I do, however, wish I had demanded respect from Joe since day one. That would have changed quite a few things in my life --- and quite possibly, my husband!
I imagined I would be married and have children by this age, but I didn't expect my DH to still be in school or for us to be struggling as much as we have. But I know that all our struggles will eventually fade away.
Also, I figured I would own a home at this point in my life...not rent like we are right now.
I am happy with our life now though. The only thing I would change is having DH finishing up his last year of dental school instead of starting his first.
Hard to say.
It couldn't be MORE different, that's for sure. Would the "other" life be better? I'll never know. Sometimes, I think it would be.
I made ONE decision that changed the course of my entire life and I often wonder to myself what would have happened if I chose the other option. Would I be happier? Would my life be better?
Have you ever seen that movie Holiday Switch with Nicole Eggert? She crawls through her dryer into the life she could have had. I wish I could do that.....I'd really like to know what would have happened if I had just gone with Option B.
totally different.
when I was in Jr. High, I was SURE I was going to be a nun when I grew up...seriously. I thought I had the "calling" from God to become a nun.
I'm not a nun.....very far from it.
And Elias Parker, Born 3.5 weeks early 12/20/2011
FINALLY!!! After 7 years of infertility!
Very different and not sure if it's better or worse.
DH and I both planned to go to law school after college and move to NYC, but at the end of our junior year we found out we were expecting DD #1. We had her in December of our senior year - right in the middle of the Fall & Spring semesters, for being un-planned she arrived at the most convienent time!
Neither of us persued schooling post-grad. He got a great job with the federal gov't right after graduation, we bought our house, I stayed home with her for 10 months and then I also got a job working for the gov't. We were married when DD was 18 months old.
We're doing fine, and I'm excited to be expecting baby #2, but I always saw myself as a super involved SAHM, which isn't going to happen anytime soon. I also never imagined I'd have a baby before getting married. Even though in the end we have the same result -- just a little out of order... baby, house then wedding.