2 years, 5 years, 7 years, 15 years, 40 years

[TC]

Where do you want to be in your life in:

2 years,

5 years,

7 years,

15 years,

40 years

[John "Eh" MacDonald]

Where I want to be...

2 years- out of high school

5 years- out of my town/city

7 years- in my career as a chef

15 years- married with 2 kids.

40 years- living in a lodge on a mountain overlooking a valley

Where I'll probably be...

2 years- still in high school

5 years- living in a 1 bedroom apartment with a buddy still in my town/city

15 years- working for the city

40 years- Overweight (but with skinny arms) and still living in the same old city with no retirement plan so i have to live with my kids till i have a heart attack from too much smoking, drinking, and McDonald's.

EDIT: Changed it for the sake of optimism
EDIT#2:less false happiness, but still optimistic

[NoOneIsIllegal]

2 years:
Want: Done with college
Reality: Still in college

5 Years:
Want: better paying job, being more active
Reality: still in college, at my crappy job

7 Years:
what's the difference between 5 and 7 years?

15 Years:
Want: to be alive, being AWESOME, doing SOMETHING with my life
Reality:six feet under

40 Years:
Want: telling awesome adventurous stories to my grand-kids
Reality: stupid little brats whining and shouting on poor ol' grandpa

[Tablo]

I liked NOII's format.

2 years:
Want: To still be in college with a few new friends.
Reality: Will be in college, but all my friends will have moved away.

5 Years:
Want: To be off on my own traveling and experiencing the world.
Reality: Will probably still be in school since my parents and grandparents will want me to go to graduate school. :(

7 Years:
Ummm, same as 5?

15 Years:
Want: A good job and plenty of time to spend with friends. Maybe even a kid, but I do not want to be married.
Reality: Alone and suffering from addiction.

40 Years:
Want: To be planning my retirement and enjoying life.
Reality: Dead.

[Martin Blank]

2 years:
Want: Living in a nice house with my wife, with a decent standard of living.
Reality: Living in a so-so house with my wife and stepdaughter, with a mediocre-to-survival standard of living.

5 Years:
Want: Playing guitar in a Grateful Dead cover band.
Reality: In and out of hospitals for my heart. http://www.revleft.com/vb/../revleft/smilies/sad.gif

7 Years:
Same as 5 Years, probably.

15 Years:
Want: Retired from active work in a proletarian communist party and able to enjoy the free time.
Reality: Possibly dead from heart failure.

40 Years:
Want: To still be alive.
Reality: Dead for quite a long time.

[Salyut]

dead

[Omi]

2 years:
Hopefully I will attend a higher education.

5 years:
In the final years of my education and rocking out around the world with my band

7 years:
Play large music festivals and such. Be awesome.

15 years:
A succesfull artist and record producer.

40 years:
Live a happy and healthy life with the one I love.

All of it highly unlikely though...

[Quail]

2 years:
Having passed my maths degree, be in the process of qualifying as a teacher.

5 Years:
Be working as a maths teacher. Be more healthy mentally.

15 Years:
To be really settled and enjoying life, and hopefully taking my anarchist teenage son to demos :lol:
(Although I'm sure he'll think I'm a weirdo and be conservative or something :()

40 Years:
To be a cool old lady.

[psgchisolm]

2 years, Out of High School, in Army

5 years, College Sophmore

7 years, Out of College, Officer in Army

15 years, Software Design Job/ Local music instructor

40 years, Grandkids

[Magón]

15 Years:
To be really settled and enjoying life, and hopefully taking my anarchist teenage son to demos :lol:
(Although I'm sure he'll think I'm a weirdo and be conservative or something :(

I'm sure going in just your bra and panties would show him you're pretty out there and free, and obviously not conservative. (Who knows, maybe everyone will be walking around in their underpants in the future?)

Although, I'd feel bad for any teenage boy who's mother would do such a thing if it wasn't. :lol:


As for my serious personal outlook of my future. (Call me an optimist, others do.)


2 Years

- Finished with Uni and starting to plan out how to go about what I love on a long term scale. (Travel FYI for what I'm talking about.)

5 Years

- Doing some traveling, and hopefully succeeding in something else.

7 Years

- Still traveling, and other stuff.

15 Years

- Traveling.

40 Years

- Traveling less probably, and settling down in a country I've found suitable to live in from my travels. Maybe a kid, but I'm not really for kids, so maybe just lovin' a lady friend?

[Il Medico]

2 years- Tampa, Fl. Sharing an apartment with two of my closest friends and and finishing up my bachelors at USF.

5 years- Somewhere (preferably Paris), France. Teaching English and/or freelance writing.

7 years- Somewhere in Europe, probably still France. Hopefully having some lucrative writing jobs to stay afloat financially. Maybe I'll squeeze out a novel length story by then, perhaps even have it published.

15 years- Traveling is finances permit. Different places in Europe, maybe come back to the states for a while. Still writing.


40 years- Retired, or close to it. Living in a small villa in southern Italy with money I saved. Grow my own wine like my Grand papa before me and spend my twilight years in the warm sun of the Mediterranean. Spain or Greece are also possibilities, but I'd prefer to go back to where my family is originally from. (Calabria specifically )

[Vendetta]

Trying the best drugs those times have to offer.

[Fawkes]

This is a blend of what I want and what is realistic


2 years: Release an album on my own label, go touring

5 years: write, act in, and direct a film, possibly through my own production company; support myself financially through being an adult film actor

7 years: continue on the whole music and film thing, maybe write a play/musical, particularly a response to Rent from the perspective of East Village natives in the 1980s (don't steal my idea mofuckas). Travel. Probably contract HIV/AIDS, but I'll hope that one's a no

15 years: Maybe be a teacher in alternative education (example: http://www.sudval.org/) while still doing the music/art/film thing. Maybe sail around the world, maybe die from AIDS

40 years: design and build my own motorcycle; write a novel or something in a similar style. Keep making music and movies. Maybe try my hand at cooking.

Life's too short, I wanna do a lot of things

[Quail]

I'm sure going in just your bra and panties would show him you're pretty out there and free, and obviously not conservative. (Who knows, maybe everyone will be walking around in their underpants in the future?)

Although, I'd feel bad for any teenage boy who's mother would do such a thing if it wasn't. :lol:

I think he'd think I was the most embarrassing person ever if I did that, although I suppose if I did walk around in just my underwear, he might become suspiciously popular with the guys in school.

Anyway, I don't really think I need to take my clothes off at inappropriate times for him to realise I'm not socially conservative.

[Magón]

5 years:support myself financially through being an adult film actor

15 years: Maybe be a teacher film thing.

I wish I had had a teacher that supported himself/herself on the side with adult film acting.


I think he'd think I was the most embarrassing person ever if I did that, although I suppose if I did walk around in just my underwear, he might become suspiciously popular with the guys in school.

Anyway, I don't really think I need to take my clothes off at inappropriate times for him to realise I'm not socially conservative.

You could always take two different cars to the rally, or something like that? lol (Or smoke pot with him?) And I would vote you mom of the year if you walked around in your underpants all the time. Of course, that's just my admiration and sometimes obsession with looking at the female form without clothes on it. :cool:

[black magick hustla]

there is not future so i dont think about the future but i just applied to phd programs in physics, so maybe if we dont end up dead i want to do that

[Bright Banana Beard]

In East Germany, it was common to see naked mom around the house, nudism was fine back in the days. and for the thread, i probably end up living in this city for long time.

[Fawkes]

I wish I had had a teacher that supported himself/herself on the side with adult film acting.





http://www.revleft.com/vb/nyc-targets-teacher-t147194/index.html

[Luisrah]

2 years:

I fantasize: Playing a huge role in my party's advancement
I hope: In the right college, taking the right grade
I think: In a college, taking a grade, that will get me a job, but not really the pleasure of my life

5 years:

I fantasize: Becoming general-secretary of my party, and historical leader :D:tongue_smilie:
I hope: Finishing college and having no second-thoughts about the grade.
I think: Finishing college but think I would have liked so much more to have philosophy, history etc.

7 years:

I fantasize: Participating in a revolution in my country. Being chased by the CIA
I hope: Finished college and having a job or go out of my country to study more for some time on something to do with philosophy, and if possible attending to some guitar masterclass with a renown guitarist.

I think:Finished college and unemployed, looking for a job. Trying to study some more to get more qualifications

15 years:

I fantasize: Participating in a worldwide revolution and writing books on marxism, abrantism (lol, MY OWN TENDENCY!) materialism, etc. Fighting in guerrilla warfare against the capitalists.
I hope:Found the girl I want to marry, finishing some travel around the world with her, settling down in a home, and probably start thinking about kids.
I think: Quite possible, except maybe for the kids and travel.

40 years:

I fantasize: Having written a ton of books on politics, economics, ethics, anthropology, materialism, gnoseology, etc. Being immortalized in history as a genius 3x better than Marx, hero of humanity, have the Nobel be replaced by the Abrantes, etc :D:laugh:
I hope:Having my kids and wife, everything fine, a 5000 euros guitar, a pile of philosophy books I've already read.
I think:Quite possible actually, I think.

[Kuppo Shakur]

2 Years: Acceptable Job.
5 Years: Get far with many of my personal projects.
15 Years: Helping bring the Proletariat to the top.
40 Years: Immortalized as Che Guevara 2.0:D

[#FF0000]

2 years:
Working on my last year of college, on my way to getting my degree in Education and History. Hopefully have some short stories that are at least ready to send out to get published. Hopefully will be pretty decent at drums and guitar.

5 Years:
A little past starting my teaching career. Something published by now.

7 Years:
By now I should probably be done with my masters, right? In History, I think. I'd also like to have some degree of mastery over a programming language or something.

15 Years:
By now I'd like to have a doctorate in History or Education. I'd probably continue teaching Secondary Ed. If my short stories ever got published, I'd also probably want to have a book started, or already written by now.


40 Years:
I just want to be not dead at this point.

[gorillafuck]

This is what I want (obviously I can't tell if it will all happen)

2 years - In college studying psychology or english, be in an awesome punk rock band

5 years - Graduate college, hopefully have a lifetime partner by then, still be playing music

7 years - Have a job that I enjoy that I don't have to put way too much effort into like many jobs nowadays

15 years - Still be in the same boat

40 years - Be a 57 year old who is 57.

[Sarah Palin]

mostly wants as I get older, closer the year more likely it will happen, can't predict the future mane

2 years- chillin in highschool. hopefully a significant other for some fun. Hopefully in college.

5- chillin in college, doing really well, happy

7- grad school, happy

15- high school teacher with a wife. Maybe a kid. Living either near Boston or NYC.

40- Good marriage with kids in college. Chillin with my wifey doing what we want when we want. Hopefully a cool old man

[Aloysius]

Hmm...

2 years: Sending out applications to various colleges around the country, fuckin' shit up at house shows in a band.

5: Going good at the college of my choice, still fuckin' shit up at shows in a band.
Maybe working as an apprentice electrician/plumber/whatever.

7: (maybe) out of college, working in my dream job (graphic design or computer service/repair), maybe married, maybe not.

15: still working, but married, possibly with kids.

40: hopefully not dead, kickin' it with (maybe) grand-kids, still posting on RevLeft.

[Ele'ill]

Where do you want to be in your life in:

2 years,

Done with college- finally.


5 years,

Be able to look back on the previous several years as unique chapters of my life instead of one drawn out waste of time. This goal will likely not be met because I am too critical of myself and what I do.


7 years,

If I'm still alive I'd like to hit the road again and travel.


15 years,

40 years

No idea but I want a place to call home- eventually and when the time is right.

[9]

ugh, don't even wanna think about it.

[bcbm]

ugh, don't even wanna think about it.

this

[graymouser]

2 years:
Well, we're planning to try and have a kid this year, so I guess I'd want the initial phase of that to be done with. I'd like to have written a play or two by then as well, and be better in Spanish and French. Also, movement work (both in the socialist movement and the larger social movements).

5 years:
Hopefully a new job at some point? I've been here like 5 years already. I'd also like to pick up another language in the mean time. Also, there would be the kid, plus movement work.

7 years:
If the wars would be done that would be nice. If not, more languages, plays. Also, kid, movement work.

15 years:
Socialism would be nice. If not, kid, movement work; I'd probably be in leadership by then.

40 years:
I definitely want socialism by that point. If not...retirement, movement work.

[Meridian]

What is this, a job interview?

[Fawkes]

What is this, a job interview?

No, we're creating profiles for eHarmony

[the last donut of the night]

ugh, don't even wanna think about it.

i highly agree with the above statement

[Sentinel]

2 years: the same as now ie politically active and possibly also studying a language. I'd either like to pick up my old german studies or learn spanish from scratch, or both. This depends on whether I can get my concentration issues sorted.

5 years: if the above succeeds I'd like to travel and perhaps work as a tourist guide abroad, while taking part in political work at the same time. Latin America..

7 years: see above.

15 years: at this point I think we can realistically expect to have large and significant revolutionary leftist movements in the west again. Hopefully I'll be part of that.

40 years: hopefully we will have implemented socialism. If not, the struggle will be intense and it will be a matter of time.. I hope that I'm still alive, although I'll be an old man it's far from impossible.