My Life in Ten Years

To say that I know exactly what life will be like in ten years would be an overstatement. Within the years preceding the ten point mark I do know however, that I will work extremely hard to both build and maintain the relationships that I have with my family, friends, and boyfriend while also working to be successful in my own career. I expect to be in a new living space in a new type of environment still residing in my home state of New Jersey. I plan to keep working toward achieving a healthy body both physically and mentally through the support of others and most importantly, after moving out I plan on keeping the closeness that I have with my mom and sisters. I can count on being married in a decade with a successful job and being financially stable with my husband. It seems to me that I will love my life in ten years as I do now, and I will be prosperous and wealthy in each of these aspects.

Healthy relationships are an important part of social and personal development that contribute to anyone’s overall wellbeing. Maintaining and building these relationships are already essential aspects of my life and looking forward ten years from now I do not see that changing. My family, along with the people I know and spend time with, all sit down to family dinners each night or most nights throughout the week and have conversations and family discussions. When I am 28, ten years from now, I think that eating dinner with my husband or children, if I have any by then, will be a very beneficial and meaningful part of my day. Not only will it be something to look forward to and destress with, but it will build and develop healthy and open relationships with my family. To guarantee that the relationships that I currently have with my family and my boyfriend’s family stay strong, I plan to meet them for dinner, holidays, and other important events. Staying close to my sisters and my mom is a very crucial factor that I try my best to maintain now, and will strive even more to reassure this. Living with my family my entire life will make moving out extremely hard, and living on my own without my mom will be difficult. I anticipate visiting her, hopefully once a week, so that she is not alone too often and to keep our relationship strong. The relationship portion of my life will be just as important, if not more important, in ten years, and that is one definite fact I know now about my future and can hope to have that security in the other aspects as well.                                                      

My career in ten years will hopefully be one relating to what I like to do in life, such as a career in public relations or some type of editor for a newspaper or magazine. I would like to be not only wealthy economically from this job, but I would like to have and hold some sort of power in my role and ranking while there and be able to enjoy doing it and going to it. As an adult, I want least to dread going to work and be unhappy while there. I can see myself working in a field of writing or publishing and having something to do with helping others. I anticipate that my career will be something enjoyable and will be relatively close to home or somewhere in New York City. I enjoy working with others, but would like best if there were opportunities to work on my own without tight restrictions, obligations or rules.

In addition to the relationships and the careers that are and will continue to be important aspects of my life, I would like to keep focusing on myself and my personal goals. In a selfless way, I anticipate working on myself and my health first and foremost. I believe that it is important for me to keep up with my fitness goals while achieving and maintaining a healthy mind. Exercising and promising to stick to the schedule I have made for it is extremely crucial in attaining my short and long term goals. Stress is a natural factor that is both a negative and positive weight in someone’s life; it can be considered in such this was as it is able to not only motivate and drive but to also discourage and overwhelm. It is necessary that I eventually achieve some balance in this aspect of my life, as I feel that now I have an overabundance of stress concerning the little issues that life throws at me and will quite frequently be irrelevant the next day. I would generally like to eliminate this unnecessary burden and allow myself to stress over the things that actually matter. I aspire to enjoy life and play its games while challenging myself to the obstacles given to me or created by myself in order to be stronger, wiser, and healthier.  

In essence, it is evidently noticeable that in life- current and in my future- I deem the most crucial features to be firstly my family and other relationships, then my health followed by my career. Without these in my top priorities, I see no room for enjoyment or improvement especially with these factors holding the potential to influence other areas of my life. Each of these topics hold a domino affect over the others. The relationships that I would like to keep along with ones I would like to strengthen and build can contribute to my state of health and my health could impact my career. I plan on staying in New Jersey, where my family resides and where my life by the shore has been lived. I would like to own a home, have a family of my own, keep the closeness I have with my current family, and have a job that leaves me financially capable of providing some support to my entire family and helping out my mom. In ten years, I will be happy, living my best life and I will be doing so with my current partner by my side and I will remain close to my family. My life leading to ten years from now has already begun because, after all, today is only the beginning of my future.