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10 years ago.. and 10 years ahead..
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TinyBubbles said on July 2, 2006 21:23:
10 years ago i was 16 and i thought by the age i am now.. i would be a psychiatrist working with children most probably. I’d be married and i’d have a child already possibly. I’d live in a beautiful home bla bla.
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Reality is i havn’t even started my uni career yet! And i’m so not married. Only ever been in love once and that was a total disaster. And it shudn’t even count cuz it was an online relationship ^^ O_o
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Ok.. 10 years from now i will be 36. I think i will NOT be married but i will have a child. Or be about to have one. (the virgin birth lolz)
I WILL most definetely have my degree. I wont be rich but i’ll be comfortable.
Lol so lets see 10 years from now...
What about you guys???
pwbbounce (moderator) said on July 3, 2006 07:45:
10 years ago today I was 16, and was probably going to be heading off down the beach with loads of friends from school. We had just finished our GCSE’s and had a couple of months off. Some people were going out to work (like me), and some people were heading off to higher education. I suppose one of the biggest regrets I’ve got is not going to higher education.
I was looking forward to starting work at a bank in August. I had found the wonders of alcohol through many beach/house parties, so I was having a good time.
I can’t really remember where I thought I’d be in 10 years time. I tend not to really think about it though. But chances are I would’ve never thought it’d be where I am though. I currently work for the local Tourism department, and actually like my job. I don’t (normally) get up and go “damn it, I’ve got work”!! I’ve got great friends, great social life, the only thing that’s missing is a partner.
Where do I see myself in 10 years?? God knows, there’s been so many difficult things thrown at me these last 10 years, so it can’t be much different really. All I know is that I will not be where I expect to be at all!! And I’m looking forward to it
Claire said on July 3, 2006 08:33:
10 years ago..... i was 14 loving school and sports. Guess wasnt doing much except playing hockey as i was so young. I thought i would be a police woman now or living in sweden after uni.
I did go to uni but am obv living in UK and at the min im not a police woman.
i have no idea what life will be like in 10 years time, i will prob be living in Newcastle maybe still with Gem hopefully earning a lot more money lol.
Majdy said on July 5, 2006 12:47:
10 years ago? I was still 16 still in High School and listen to Roxette several times per day. I sometimes consider that moment as one of the hardest year in my life. That’s when I realized that we can always get what we want. Back then, I like to think that 10 years after that, I’d probably already have a job in newspaper of TV, had my own apartement, computer, and finally afford to have all Rox and related music. Never thought of being married though.
However, ten years has passed. I did have a job that I always dreamt of, but had to quit it so I could move to the US. I’m married now and still couldn’t afford to have all Rox and related stuff.
What I dream for the 10 years ahead. Hopefully, that I become more positive person, already have enough money (or LOTS of money :D) to raise kids and have fun.
ncurran said on July 5, 2006 14:52:
10 years ago, it was the summer holidays before i started my 3rd yr at Uni which was a year abroad in France and Germany. I probably thought that in 10 yrs time i would be living abroad in europe somewhere. I never did move to europe, but i have travelled quite a bit over the last 10 yrs and seen places i would never have imagined.
In 10 yrs time i would like to own my own house, hopefully be in a stable relationship and have furthered my career in teaching, perhaps moving into a guidance/pastoral role by then. I would like to have travelled further...i would like to see more places in america (have only been to new york) and would love to spend some time in australia aswell. As to where i will be living....i have no idea, somewhere in the UK, perhaps in england but you never know, i might still be in scotland. i dont have any definite plans after this year.
zaine said on July 5, 2006 15:05:
10 years ago, I was only 8 years old O_o
I have no idea what I was doing. still at primary school. I had no plans for my future, and no cares for my present. I guess, I was merely existing.
in 10 years time I will be 28, I plan to have a degree in some kind of art. I hope to specialising in illustration, but I might follow some other path by then. I hope to have found someone to spend my life with. maybe we will have a kid by then, or talking about one. I will be living in cornwall.
coyboyusa said on July 5, 2006 17:46:
10 years ago I was 20 and at this time i thought I would have graduated college and had a more satosfying job.....10 years from now I hope to own a better house, more cats and well lol i dunno world peace lol
Debora said on July 8, 2006 20:32:
10 years ago I was 19, I was living in the city, I was at medicine school thinking about my future as a doctor.
Now, I’m 29. I’m not a doctor but a primary school teacher with no job. My live hasn’t changed much, I only am older.
In 10 years’ time... who knows!
Fortius said on July 9, 2006 02:36:
Back in 1996 I was 15 years old and MAD about getting to the “next”olympics in Sydney, close to get insane because of that ;) , and a lot of truobles at school (me against authority and low self esteem). Didn´t hear much of Rox those days.
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Next year I hope to finish my carrer (kinesiology)and start working at any sports medicine or traumathologic place.
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In 10 years from now I hope to get to any olympics as participant (yeah!!) or among the medical stuff. Have a couple of kids, and had traveled to Sweden and been on Halmstad. jejeje.
xarrrr said on July 15, 2006 19:28:
10 years ago i was 11 years old... i was in primary school and my favourite subject was art and i swam for the edenvale swimming club. my only worry was staying safe
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10 years ahead i’ll be 31 years old. i’d like to be settled in my own place with someone i love etc.... maybe have a kid or 2 hahaha. and i want a carreer by then! either in marketing, merchandising or website design.
not asking too much, am i :P
Santi said on July 16, 2006 10:26:
10 Years ago I was 18... had finished my first university year, wanted to become an Earth scientist, to go and study abroad (especially in Sweden!! :D), to learn some further languages and to make science documentaries, in a 10 years time.
Now I am 28, I am a master student of Oceanography, so still on my way to become an Earth scientist :D (Science is a looong looong way...), I learnt Swedish and studied there, and I am currently making my first science documentary!!! :D
In 10 years I will be 38, if I’m still alive. So by then I hope to be an established tv documentary producer who can afford Stanley Cup tickets!! I’d like to have a kid or two, and a house by a fjord. I see myself as an oceanographer working in arctic environments or as a climatologist, at some science institution or university, apart from the filmmaking :D I also want to have run a marathon...
On a global scale, I hope by then Linux is more popular than Windows and that the space program to bring a man to Mars is well underway! :)
silverblue2006 said on July 24, 2006 03:48:
Ten years ago I was 15, fanatical about Roxette, listened to them 99.99% of the time, literally.
My world was about to crash down with emotional problems and realizing life wasn’t as happy as I pretended it was, and boy was that hard. I was in 10th grade in high school, and in some ways very sad, in some ways very much in my own little world and loving every minute of my Rox-obsession.
Now I’m 25, almost finished college with a degree that isn’t going to get me much as a career, have gone to massage school, got my license, just moved to a new state about six months ago, etc etc. So, so much has changed. I have come, very recently, full circle, from fanatical, to respectful and liking Roxette, but over my obsession, which it truly was back then. I don’t recognize who I was then, who I am now. Sheesh, all deep tonight, what gives? :)
In ten years, ... well I have a hard enough time thinking ten years from now on my own, so I won’t make up an answer. I haven’t a clue. Maybe I will have left the continent, traveled some, learned more about life and people, and practiced massage therapy in a medical setting, will most likely have another awesome guide dog. Who knows what life has in store?
*ponders*
ally77 said on July 24, 2006 07:06:
Maybe my next 10 years will be better, things have changed a lot in just two weeks!
nate said on July 27, 2006 01:06:
10 years ago I was 21, still attending college, working part time as a Teller in the bank. I remember taking a three-week vacation to Scandinavia, and spent most of my weekends camping and partying with my friends.
Though so much has changed in between then and now, ironically I still work for the bank :) - as an Analyst in Legal and Compliance. On the side, I continue take some additional theological courses, and eventually wish earn my degree. I suppose at one time I used to have a very strong desire to get married and to start a family - but today I enjoy being single and unattached; although, it’s not very common in my church to be single and 31.
10 years from now, I expect to have completed my program in theological studies, and have settled into a new career. As far as marriage and family go, I haven’t completely ruled that out yet either... :D
eBay said on August 2, 2006 12:45:
Wow! What an interesting discussion!!
10 years ago I was 17 and had a beautiful girlfriend - today I have a boyfriend. I was the worst English and Maths student my teacher ever had and I thought I would end up a poor fucker.. Today, I am living a comfortable live, have a good job, nice apartment, nice car.. more than I have ever wished for.
whateveriam said on August 5, 2006 22:32:
10 years ago, I was nearly 8, and probably enjoying my holidays. I was a normal kid, going to Brownies and crap. Big glasses, cute blondish bob
Now, I’m at college, nearly 18, still single, doing stuff in the vain effort that I work out what I want to do with my life. And I’m not so normal now :-). I spent 5 years of secondary school trying to hide what I was, and trying to be as faceless as possible-so much so that my head of year barely remembered my name when I left last year. Music helped, a lot during my 5 year incarceration (and I call it that cos it was for me).
10 years ahead-I’ll be doing what I wanna do in life. Hopefully I’ll be with someone who cares for me as much as I do for them. Kids-who knows? Career-would be nice. But I just want to be happy, really. An easy life.
ally77 said on August 6, 2006 11:11:
@ whateveriam .... enjoy your life.... don’t let it pass you by like I feel mine has the past 7 years or so... there is so much I regret no doing when I was younger...
whateveriam said on August 6, 2006 21:41:
I’m enjoying it now, cos I don’t have to hide any more, and I’m not surrounded by immature fools who were SUPPOSEDLY my friends...
Kathrin said on August 7, 2006 12:00:
10 Years ago I was in the 2nd Grade, it was not much different than the Kindergarten Years(I’ve been thru Very Hard times in my whole Life which means I cried allot cuz I got bothered by bullies and other classmates cause of my Slowness
Kathrin said on August 7, 2006 12:03:
10 years ahead I dunno what’s gonna happen then!
But I wish that I can adopt a Child or 2 or even more when I’m older!
lonely_girl said on August 7, 2006 14:15:
10 years ago I was 18 and in the middle of my apprenticeship as a clerk and had a huuuuuge crush on one of my workmates... And he took advantage of it... >:-( I was still a bit of a dreamer back then and more than just naïve.
In 10 years I’ll be hopefully still happily working as a librarian, maybe married, maybe children, who knows... I don’t want to think about it yet. Many things will happen till then and who knows what happens to ones dreams.
tavo said on August 7, 2006 19:53:
1996. i had so many plans. i was 16 years old and i was in high school. i thought that by now i would have gotten my degree, but that hasn´t happened yet. i don´t know what the future will bring since it has brought so far has been quite unexpected. anyway, i just hope i´m alive in 10 years time, healthy and engaged or something.
whateveriam said on August 8, 2006 15:28:
1996 was such an optimistic year I seem to remember...
Maybe it was the Britpop thing?
DaminehGessle said on August 8, 2006 19:39:
This is the best thread in a loooong time!
10 YEARS AGO:
I was 16. I lived in Iran and in LaLa Land
I went to bed every night crying and wishing I could save Per from the sadness he showed in some songs. Haha. And I thought he could save me too!
I dreamed of becoming an engineer one day working on aeroplanes and going to space.
I adored tennis and played as Andre Agassi with my friend as Pete Sampras, on a daily basis.
NOW:
I am 26. I live in Canada.
I don’t dream of saving Per from anything really. I still hope I can see him one day but I don’t cry myself to sleep over it. I laugh at those days and then I go silent. It’s sad how beautiful life used to be living in a LaLa Land.
I AM an engineer working on aeroplanes. Work couldn’t have been better.
I still love tennis but due to a back injury 7 years ago, I can’t play every day. Andre Agassi is retiring in a few weeks. Pete Sampras retired 2 years ago. And my friend lives in Toronto, 5 hours from me by air!
10 YEARS FROM NOW:
I will be 36. I have no idea where life will take me country wise.
Not sure if I’ll meet Per by then.
I will still be an engineer. I will be done my PhD by then. I should look at my schedule to see if I have enough time by then to have started working for space agency such as NASA or CSA. Probably CSA. I would like to work in Canada.
All I know is life will be beautiful if I’m still as healthy as today.
I have no idea what role men will play in the next 10 years. No clue and I don’t like to predict on that. These past 9 years... It’s been a rollercoaster moving to Canada and trying to make my dreams come true career wise. Hasn’t been easy.
ally77 said on July 2, 2006 21:43:
10 years ago today I was 18, going on 19 ;) I was still living at home and had just finished college, I don’t think I was working, I don’t remember, I think perhaps I had a part job in a shop or something... (memory ain’t what it use to be)...
I didn’t go to university when I left college which I still regret but I had more important things to do!
If I had of gone, then maybe life would be different!
In 10 years from now when I am 38 going on 39, I hope to have passed by driving test (there is a joke in there somewhere....) and be living somewhere else with at least one child of my own, if not two....
I would prefer to stay single though, but then you just never know what is around the corner...