Your life in 5 years......?

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Re: Your life in 5 years......?

Post by EssTee191 » Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:22 am

In 5 years hopefully I will be attending a drama academy and performing on stage. Hopefully I will be free of S.I and I can enjoy the years I have. I hope to be living in a nice flat with friends and have a job to keep me busy. :) even though it's hard now eventually it does get better... That's what I think and shall live by. :redstar: xx

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Post by cariad » Sat Nov 19, 2011 8:31 pm

in 5 years ill be 28. by then i hope to be planning my wedding, have my MA, have a career path and maybe considering a future
at the moment C & i have planned to get engaged in the next year and married in the next 7 so it will be exciting to see where things are in 5.
one small part of my head sort of hopes i still have my ED then...but then that is probably just a reflection of my thinking atm.
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Post by Beasty » Sun Nov 20, 2011 4:06 am

In five years, hopefully I will be well into my PhD program and two years away from earning my doctorate. I hope I will be healed, will have a significant other that I love in my life.
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Post by breathing » Tue Nov 22, 2011 4:18 am

In five years, I'll be going for a master's degree. I hope that I will be able to have an internship, at least.

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Post by fell_on_black_days » Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:19 pm

My book, finally published.
A good run of gigs with some acting gigs thrown in with perhaps a healthy PT career in the meantime.
That'd be nice I reckon. :disco:

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Post by zyn » Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:42 am

Hmm. Five years from now I'll be 22, almost 23. I'd like to:

-have finished my BA Photography with an emphasis on using art to heal trauma/mental health (with a further emphasis on SA)
-have my own place full of books and cameras and cats
-still be in contact with Steve, Daryl & Dan
-be writing a book or in the process of publishing.
-working towards an MA (either in art therapy or museum studies/curating)
-be happy
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Post by munchalot11 » Fri Mar 30, 2012 5:28 pm

Hopefully, in 5 years, I will have almost completed my first year as a foundation doctor. Fingers crossed.
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Post by Stormy Llwellyn » Sat Mar 31, 2012 3:47 am

In 5 years I would like to go back to college and finish my paramedic degree.
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Post by cariad » Tue Apr 03, 2012 6:58 pm

married. in our own house. all our own animals. maybe, maybe a baby bump. to be an author and professor. with a 1st class MA and a PHD.
*crosses fingers for fairy dust*
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Post by noldo » Sat Sep 01, 2012 8:20 pm

In five years, I'll be 35 years old and I hope...

- to have a boyfriend/husband

- to have a child

- to be working with children, youths with mental health problems

- to be happy, no SI anymore

- to be thin or at least at a normal weight
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Post by zyn » Sat Oct 20, 2012 8:27 pm

Hm, 2017. I'll be 23. :o

-I hope I'll have a good/stable job, that's when I start paying back my student loan!
-I'll have been a graduate for a year, so I hope I'll have done well in my degree...
-I'd like to think I'll have managed to make friends over the next four years at uni.
-Hopefully I'll be saving for my MA
-I'll still be living in Edinburgh!
-I'll have been five years SI free :)
-I'll be more stable, less anxious and better at taking care of myself.
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Post by Peege » Sun Oct 21, 2012 4:15 pm

Peege in 2006 wrote:in five years, i may be 28.
i will have found some dreams to hold on to.
and maybe someone to hold on to me.
Well, I was 28! Now I'm a week and a bit from 30!

When I was 28 I had very different dreams to those I expected.
I was planning a wedding, our daughter was heading for 1 :)

In five years... 35.

I hope I'll be content.
In a job I love, am good at, I get something out of and I am successful in. Something that matters.
I will still own a house, maybe not this one anymore.
My husband and I will get on better, we will relax and just be living our lives, instead of feeling like it's us against the world.
The kids will drive us crazy and melt our hearts.
It won't be anything outrageous or flamboyant but it will be comfortable.
And we will be happy.

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Post by pretty » Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:36 pm

pretty wrote:I will have published something.
I will have my masters and be in a job I love, or doing a phd.
I will be living somewhere nicer.
I will have a cat.
My partner will still be an important part of my life.
I will have more, and closer, friends.
I will be thinking seriously about children.
My family will be healthy. (That one is a hope, but not something I have any control over.)
I wrote that six years ago. Wow. So:
I haven't published anything.
I don't have my masters, but I do like my job a lot more.
I live somewhere nicer.
I have a cat.
My partner is no longer part of my life.
I've got more awesome friends than I could have hoped.
I am planning to have children at some point in the next five years.
My family are healthy (though some have died in the past five years, so that doesn't really count).

Not too bad, considering everything that's happened in the past six years. In another five I hope:
I will actually have published something.
I will have children.
I will have someone in my life who is honest and loves and supports me.
My family will still be healthy.
I will still have wonderful friends.
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Re: Your life in 5 years......?

Post by pelagic » Wed Dec 19, 2012 8:16 pm

Wow Pretty that is amazing! :bluestar:
Crazy to find things in BUS from the past.



:ylwstar: in five years, I'll be 25
:lgrnstar: I'll have finished AHT schooling/I'll be an animal health technician
:lblstar: Coming back from, going to, or working towards volunteering/working abroad, specifically Australia
:dkpurpstar: Lulu will be 5, Gandhi and Lenore will be breeding, while Houdini and Hershey may be dead (pets)
:pinkstar: I hope I'm still friends with friends that are slipping away now
:grystar: My girlfriend will be transitioned and happy... preferably with me.

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Post by Mundo Cani » Mon Dec 24, 2012 11:41 pm

I would like to still be alive and be a father to my second child or children.
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Post by TheRockingHorse » Fri Apr 05, 2013 5:24 pm

I will be 23.

-I want to be in a top law school, and be tough enough to pursue my dream of being a prosecutor
-I want my legs to be healed enough that I can run a few miles every day
-I want to love myself for my sexuality, and be comfortable to be open to everyone.
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Post by capricorn » Mon Apr 15, 2013 11:59 pm

I will be 26 [!] and hopefully I will have my PhD, or at least be working towards it.
I hope I'll be working in a good lab, earning my own money & financially independent from my parents.
Hopefully I will have my migraines under control, my back pain under control, mental health stuff not too bad. And hopefully I'll be in touch with my awesome friends, and will have made some new ones.
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Post by pelagic » Tue Apr 16, 2013 8:42 am

pelagic wrote:Wow Pretty that is amazing! :bluestar:
Crazy to find things in BUS from the past.



:ylwstar: in five years, I'll be 25
:lgrnstar: I'll have finished AHT schooling/I'll be an animal health technician
:lblstar: Coming back from, going to, or working towards volunteering/working abroad, specifically Australia
:dkpurpstar: Lulu will be 5, Gandhi and Lenore will be breeding, while Houdini and Hershey may be dead (pets)
:pinkstar: I hope I'm still friends with friends that are slipping away now
:grystar: My girlfriend will be transitioned and happy... preferably with me.
Revising this list! :olol:


:ylwstar: in 5 years, I'll be 26
:lgrnstar: I'll have finished VOAC schooling, have worked in a veterinary clinic
:dkpurpstar: I'll be beginning/finishing/in the middle of AHT schooling to become an animal health technician.
:pinkstar: Lulu will be 5/6, Gandhi and Lenore will be breeding (hopefully), hopefully Houdini is alive, and Hershey has died since I wrote this :blfrwn:
:grystar: My GF will be transitioned and happy... and preferably with me! I hope to marry her. Maybe we'll be engaged in 5 years.

Slight changes... but big ones. My heart aches that some of these changes have already happened.

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Post by Bitzerker » Sun Jun 02, 2013 1:46 am

In 5 years time I'd be a qualified ethical hacker with 3 years experience, id be happily married, no kids just loads of pets instead. Id be close with all mygood friends past and present.
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Post by knocking » Fri Oct 25, 2013 3:17 pm

knocking wrote: I will be 26. In 5 years I want to be:

:lgrnstar: Hopefully finished my 2 years Diploma (starting next year), 1 year Bachelor (pathway course from TAFE) and 1 or 2 final years to have my masters degree.
:ylwstar: Be somewhere towards my goal of an adolescent psychologist (either studying or a year or two's work before finishing studies).
:lblstar: Be 5 years 5 months SH free.
:star: Have my SI awareness tattoo to celebrate (getting it at 1 or 2 years free).
:dkpurpstar: Have my story/novel published.
:redstar: Be able to look in the mirror and love what I see, and actually be able call myself beautiful.
:pinkstar: I want to go be able to / have gone in a marathon of some sort.
:bluestar: Gone on a roadtrip to visit the people from my childhood/sisters-neices and nephew/the people from the helpline I call to thank them in person.
:grnstar: Spent a new years eve at Cameron's corner (think thats what its called) where its three states in one place, three time zones, three times celebrating the one new year (literally).
Wow... Did I really write this list??
Soo... update!

In 5 years. I will be 28.
:lgrnstar: Either be most of the way through my studies or out in the workforce with some sort of job.
:ylwstar: Have worked out where I want my life to be heading.
:lblstar: Be 7 years SH free.
:star: Have my SI awareness tattoo to celebrate - changed to getting it at 4 years (a little over a year and a bit time)
:dkpurpstar: Have my story/novel published. (still thinking about this one)
:redstar: Be able to look in the mirror and love what I see, and actually be able call myself beautiful. (still working on this one)
:pinkstar: I want to go be able to / have gone in a marathon of some sort. (Still want to do this one day)
:bluestar: Gone on a roadtrip to visit the people from my childhood/sisters-neices and nephew/the people from the helpline I call to thank them in person. (I've caught up with one of my mates - but they came to me)
:grnstar: Spent a new years eve at Cameron's corner (think thats what its called) where its three states in one place, three time zones, three times celebrating the one new year (literally).
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