I guess I hate Suicidegirls.com. It's hard for me to come here. And when I do, I inevitably end up doing something else IRL.
lol
I know the only thing more irritating than [insert name of social networking site here] is bitching about it on said site.... but it is what it is.
Anyhow, the journal I wrote a week or so ago but couldn't find the stamina to post was about the concept of the Five Year Plan, which is interesting to me. I just watched part of the Seven Up! series, and it's interesting to me how when you look at snapshots of some one's life, their priorities change so drastically.
The first time I was asked about what my five year plan I think I was fourteen. I had never considered the possibility, preferring, of course, the idea of dying dramatically in my early twenties. When I tried to picture it, realistically, the first thing I saw was pursuing an acting career, or something else predictably exciting in New York, NY.
As it turned out five years later, instead of doing any of those things I was working a low paying food service job in New Hampshire. I had overshot New York by a few hundred miles but had, maybe fittingly (and unbeknownst to me at the time) landed about 20 miles from where J.D. Salinger apparently hermits around. My rough five year plan at that point was to get the fuck out of dodge (again), go to college, and get a job doing something with cars. Either on a race team or on the manufacturing end. College fizzled out after about a year once all that free financial aid I thought would be there turned out not to be, and, instead, was replaced by a chunk of completely unjustifiable debt.
Five years after that puts me at about a year ago when (again) a move across the country was in the works. It's much harder to say what a current five year plan would be. It's harder because a big part of me is less concerned with where I'm heading or what that means and more concerned with being around for it. It's also harder because I realize how embarrassing those plans tend to be in retrospect. I guess if I had to say something, a house and a job brewing full time seem just about right. But who knows.
So loyal readers, here we are. I'm also interested if other people have actual "five year plans" that they follow, and if so, what that involves, or whatever.
lol
I know the only thing more irritating than [insert name of social networking site here] is bitching about it on said site.... but it is what it is.
Anyhow, the journal I wrote a week or so ago but couldn't find the stamina to post was about the concept of the Five Year Plan, which is interesting to me. I just watched part of the Seven Up! series, and it's interesting to me how when you look at snapshots of some one's life, their priorities change so drastically.
The first time I was asked about what my five year plan I think I was fourteen. I had never considered the possibility, preferring, of course, the idea of dying dramatically in my early twenties. When I tried to picture it, realistically, the first thing I saw was pursuing an acting career, or something else predictably exciting in New York, NY.
As it turned out five years later, instead of doing any of those things I was working a low paying food service job in New Hampshire. I had overshot New York by a few hundred miles but had, maybe fittingly (and unbeknownst to me at the time) landed about 20 miles from where J.D. Salinger apparently hermits around. My rough five year plan at that point was to get the fuck out of dodge (again), go to college, and get a job doing something with cars. Either on a race team or on the manufacturing end. College fizzled out after about a year once all that free financial aid I thought would be there turned out not to be, and, instead, was replaced by a chunk of completely unjustifiable debt.
Five years after that puts me at about a year ago when (again) a move across the country was in the works. It's much harder to say what a current five year plan would be. It's harder because a big part of me is less concerned with where I'm heading or what that means and more concerned with being around for it. It's also harder because I realize how embarrassing those plans tend to be in retrospect. I guess if I had to say something, a house and a job brewing full time seem just about right. But who knows.
So loyal readers, here we are. I'm also interested if other people have actual "five year plans" that they follow, and if so, what that involves, or whatever.
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