10 years from now

Jeez. You'd think I'd get farther than a day before forgetting. Well, I remembered earlier but then I got caught up figuring out how to trade Pokemon using emulators (I now have all three starters and a full set of the red/blue specifics so far - it's important.)

So, without further ado, Day 02: Where you'd like to be in 10 years

Huh. It's a rather overdone question in some ways, but still an interesting one. Like I said before, I'm not really sure where my life is going. 10 years from now I'll be 30, which sounds really old to me but isn't really, in the grand scheme of things.

Call me old-fashioned, but ideally I'd like to be married and have a kid or two by then. Monetarily, I'd like to be comfortable - I don't want to wonder where my next meal is coming from, and I'd like a cushion in case something crazy happens. I don't ever need to be rich to be happy.

Having a career isn't terribly important to me, though I think it's important for me to have something to do every day. I'd like to have found local theatre and/or music groups to join, maybe a bookclub, just things to give me time to be me and keep my other hobbies going. If I can, I'd like to be in a situation where I can either work from home or take some time off to stay home with my children.

The more I think about it, the more I realize that the most important thing to me is family. In an extended sense, this includes my friends. I hope to still be in touch with many of the people I am close to now, even if we don't wind up living near each other. When I picture my future, it revolves around the people in my life - it really does boil down to just that. And I've always had a strong desire to have children, so that features prominently.

Really, I come back to the idea that life is what happens when you're making other plans. So I don't really bother planning, because lots of variables can change. And maybe doing that is what has really distilled my priorities for me, but it's been very comforting to see because I can try to stress less about it now. If I can find my way to a family and a happy home, I'll be okay. And I really believe that's an attainable goal.

[this probably rambles, but I'm too tired to think through edits. Call it a freewrite or whatever. Good night.]