Is it wrong that I don't really know what my life goals are at this point? I mean, I still barely know what I'm doing moment to moment most of the time. I have a job that I enjoy a vast majority of the time, good friends, a large and relatively happy group of family and friends. Isn't that all a girl could really ever want?
For the first time in a long time, I'm content with where I am in my life, which 20-something me would not understand. Life is so much stranger than we could ever imagine (in mostly good ways), so making lists about what I'd like to happen seems a little futile. In a perfect world, I'd like to get married one day to a wonderful man who I love and who loves me. I'd like to remodel my house or start over with a whole new house. I want to one day, own a little shop full of kitchy goodies and random furniture like my hero, Laurie, and plan events on the side. I want to be a good aunt to my little nieces (and potential future nephews). I want to continue to be happy wherever I am and whatever I'm doing.
My goal line changes daily sometimes. (Surely, I'm not alone in this.) But it's a lot of fun to dream.
I totally agree with you! If your goals don't change with you as your life changes it'll leave you with a petty empty feeling of an unrealized goal that's not so important anymore.
ReplyDeleteYou DO have a pretty fabulous world now!
It always feels better when someone agrees with you! Thanks!
DeleteI really don't think we were meant to know exactly what we want out of life in our 20s. I know it took me some time to grow and mature before I could really pin down serious goals. I went back to college at age 33 and became a teacher at age 36. I know I appreciate my degree a whole lot more now than I would have if I had taken the traditional route. Our experiences DEFINITELY change our goals. In some ways I like to just see where life will take me.
ReplyDeleteI'm 31, and have been a teacher since I was 21. But I hear what you are saying. I think many of the things that happen in our lives happen because it's time, no matter if we are ready or not. But if we are lucky, we get a chance to realize the wonderful moments as they happen.
DeleteExactly! We just need to keep our eyes open. When I "gave up" my dream of becoming a teacher in my early college years, I never thought I would wind up back at it half a lifetime later. There was a reason I had a different path to be on. I just don't know that that was and probably never will. That's the interesting part of life. We do have to keep our eyes open for those wonderful moments. Sometimes we don't realize how wonderful they were until they've past us by and we're looking back in memories.
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