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

[Glockenspiel]

I'll be running a money raising outfit for charities. And making millions of dollars for them.

And I'll have a PHD in Historical Linguistics.

[Descent]

I will be nineteen years old. Hopefully by then I will know exactly what I'm doing with my life, and I will be in college to become a psychologist. Maybe I will have met someone. Maybe I'll be in love. I only want that if it doesn't interfere with my dreams. I mostly just want to be happy. SI free. Depression free. Maybe I will have met my favorite band.. another one of my dreams. All I know is if by then, I'm still unhappy, then I'm going to do something about it.

[-Apolla-]

in five years' time... I would want to be ending my study and about to get a good nice job - nothing were I work too much. I'd want a fiance and to get married soon and to get pregnant. I would like to start a family before I am 30, so that I would be happy. and I would travel a lot (which the money my husband earned ), for example to Africa.

[Annybelly]

In five years time, I'll be 19, a legal adult!

If I'm at Uni I'll be, doing a course I love, I'll have found a course which combines the things I love, and allows me to get a job I'll love, and I'll be at a good uni [heh, I'm thinking Ox/bridge, though that's a dream], I'll be loving life, able to cope, and living as a student- not much money, but fun times. I'll have found a church I love, and I'll be an active member of a Christian Union.

If I'm doing a gap year, I'll be making a difference, learning more about myself, and becoming more selfless as I help people, and share the word of God, either in the UK, or abroad. I'll be loving what I'm doing, and making a difference to peoples' lives, in a positive way.

Either way, by then, I'll have a great group of friends with whom I'm close, and a boyfriend I'm very much in love with, and who loves me back equally... I'll have met a guy, who's Christian, and who I'm made for, who I get on with... and we'll know that even if we break up, we'll remain friends..
Maybe I'll even be fortunate enough to get involved with helping with the youth of my local church, and have the opportunity to share my story- that of a teenage girl who SHed, who got herself mixed up in ED behaviours, who couldn't believe God loved her, forgived her, yet saw the light, was 'transformed by the renewing of her mind' and found hope, and slowly, left SH and ED and self-hating behind. That'll be my story. I'll be here on bus, posting in my own place occasionally, but happy, positive things, I'll be able to encourage others, and say it IS possible to beat these things which imprison us. I'll come home, over the summer, as I finish the year of Uni, or my gap year, in time for camp. I'll go to camp, and have the most awesome year, I'll be able to sit with F, as her kids are aged 4 and 7, and I'll be able to play with them, and talk to F, about how I'm living a life I love, how I'm able to help people, and how I'm so thankful for the help she gave me in dealing with what I've dealt with.

I'll be 'better', but I'll be in a place where I can help, where I can reach out to those who'd otherwise been left out, where I can love those who'd otherwise be forgotten, and I can do it, both online, and IRL, secure in the knowledge that I love, and I am loved, I care, and I am cared about, I believe others can beat SH and ED live lives of freedom, as I do so too.

*heh, I write too much, 'tis a long shot, but my life could be different. Hopefully.*

[demolition_lover]

5 years. I'll be 23, closing in on 24.

I will be finishing my 3rd year of vet school, because I'll have been accepted into the program on my first try. I will have lots of tattoos with significant meaning to me, because I want my body to tell a story. I will still have my best friend and she will just be finishing her degree, so maybe we will be renting a place or something. I don't really care if I'm in a relationship or not, but if I am, it will be a positive and equal one.

I will still be riding as much as possible, because that's what I really love. I'll continue to work at summer camp because that place is my second home, and I'd love to move up to being an assistant head counselor if I'm too old to be a regular counselor.

This would be perfection.

[zombiepeople]

In five years...

I'll be 24 years old, out of college with my bachelor's degree, no longer working at Arby's, and well-established in my career working with children. I'll have a steady relationship with someone and looking to get married within another five years. I'll have a child and a supporting partner who is always willing to help me out.

My mom will have gotten out or will be getting out of prison around five years from now or so and I'll maintain a civil relationship with her without gettting too close to her for fear that she'll hurt me again.

Overall I want to be happy, SI and ED free, and on a better road to a productive, enjoyable life.

[ChaseThisLight]

In five years I will be 26.

Ideally I'll be graduated from law school for about a year. And I'd have a job prospect. I'd also be somewhere that isn't here.

Well, one third of this is true. I graduated from law school...

[Licentia Poetica]

I'll still be with N in a secure relationship.
I'll have developed a language of my own to express to people what I need and how I'm feeling.
I'll be working full time in some place that pays me enough to live comfortably, and like what I'm doing, and nowhere that is soul-sucking or money laundering.
Hopefully my pain will be better or have gone away.
I'll keep up my level of French.

[Neviah]

Ill be 26

I hope to be married with kids.

And I hope to be better

[splitimage]

I'll be 47.

Hopefully I'll be celebrating 5 years sober.

I'll hopefully be 2/3'rds of the way to getting my ARC from the conservatory in harp. I want to get my ARC before I'm 50.

I'll be in a good career oriented finance job - not something dead end.

I'll be brave enough to be a mental health and addictions recovery advocate using my real name.

[ChaseThisLight]

Let's try 5 more years...I'll be 30 almost 31.

Job in the legal field
Living on my own (or with a partner if that ends up happening...lol)
No longer living in collegetown
Still working on recovery and taming my OCD
Have a dog.

[Beasty]

In 5 years, I hope to be in a prestigious PhD program for literature, living in my own place, recovered from SA, maybe in a relationship but maybe not...

Just happy.

[a7xcncangel]

-Independent from my parents
-Living in my own apartment in a mid-sized city
-Hopefully in a relationship
-Hopefully with a degree and a job
-Able to express myself freely and better figure out who I am
-Happier and more secure

[snowangel_03]

..And here's where my infamous neediness says hello...but if the list could be absolutely anything in the world, feasible or no...

- I'd be depression and SI free.
- I'd have a job and one I loved, at that - possibly something to do with music or administration.
- I'd have a supportive circle of friends.
- I'd have a loving partner who trusted and respected me.
- I'd have a family proper family, not bullshitters who fake emotion.
- I'd have a home, not just a roof over my head.
- I'd have spent time with the people I've become close to recently.
- I'd have been to at least one concert here, and two in Europe.
- I'd have travelled to at least one of the places on my wish list.
- I'd have learned to play the guitar.
- I'd have found my creative side - my stick men need a lot of work
- I'd mean everything to someone.
- I'd be able to write, not just journal, but words that mean things to other people as well as to me.
- I'd be confident and secure in myself and realise that my flaws are what makes me different, not a bad person.
- I'd be able to take chances without over analysing e-v-e-r-y-thing.
- I'd be happy.

I'm sure there's more, I'm just full of brain fart right now

[zyn]

I'll have finished my BA in Photography here in the UK.
I'll have at least started my MA in Photography at MassArt.
I'll still be in contact with my photography teacher & technician.
I'll be an exhibiting photographer and/or a technician on an A Level or degree course
I'll be happy.

[marshmallowfluff]

i shall be 21 by then, so hopefully i'll be at uni, with a great b/f and some good friends (and hopefully not SIing)

soem of this happened.

i have good friends
i'm at uni.


in 5 years i'd like to:

have successfully completed my degree and be worknig as a nurse
have learnt new coping mechanisms
travelled a bit more
have some of my poetry published
be living independantly
be a stable and healthy weight

[Just Pomegranates]

Have completed my Bachelor of Arts and probably Honors as well
Hopefully have moved out of home
Saving to move to Toronto
Have hopefully visited my best friend in England

[knocking]

Hmm. Lets have a lookie..


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

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.
Be somewhere towards my goal of an adolescent psychologist (either studying or a year or two's work before finishing studies).
Be 5 years 5 months SH free.
Have my SI awareness tattoo to celebrate (getting it at 1 or 2 years free).
Have my story/novel published.
Be able to look in the mirror and love what I see, and actually be able call myself beautiful.
I want to go be able to / have gone in a marathon of some sort.
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.
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).

[munchalot11]

I'll have just finished medical school.
I'll be off my medication
I'll be healthy, and happy, and confident
I'll have lots of friends, old and new.

[eccentricfuzzyme]

This was a really hard one for me, because I have so many pipe dreams, and it is hard for me to wrap my head around what is achievable, and the idea that one day I might do something of value.

In 5 years I want to have completed at least one of the three books that I am very half ass-edly working towards writing. I want to be in a real relationship, based on compatibility and love instead of just lust or lonliness. I want to be financially secure, and able to live in a condo (or even an apartment) with no need for a roommate. And most importantly, I want to be well enough to be able to actually handle doing any of those things.