In Ten Years

I've never liked the question "Where do you see yourself in __ years".  Something has never jived with my personality on this one.  It's not that it's a bad question, I just never really liked trying to guess at something which I knew was probably going to change drastically or be near impossible to predict.  Look at it this way...tell me to guess the winner/loser in the Super Bowl all day long, big deal.  But tell me to guess not only the winner/loser, but each individual stat of each individual player and how each team would perform on offense including how many yards they would gain or give up and penalties and whether or not a player would get hurt and in that what kind of injury would it be and would the coaches get mad and throw down their headsets and how many people would be in the stands and ......yeah, impossible and crazy making. 

As a young dating couple somewhere around 11 or 12 years ago back in college, Kelly and I played that "revolutionary" game SIMS on the computer.  It has since faded a bit in it's popularity I think ; )  We did like any other SIMS player and set up our own little world, picked a house and it's furnishings, and on and on and on basically drawing up what we thought life would be like for ourselves in a few years down the road.  I don't quite remember all the details of our fantasy world, but I'm pretty sure it didn't look like it does now.  No, I'm quite positive.  And yet, we wouldn't have it any other way.

We could have NEVER drawn it up.  It's next to impossible really, and I'm so glad it is.  Because it's not really about where you'll end up, it's all about what will happen along the way.  That's the good stuff!  It doesn't mean it won't be hard and certainly there are many perceived obstacles waiting for all of us.  But it's what makes us who we are, each little moment in our lives, each little story, all the "good" and the "bad".

So I think I'll tell my kids that whenver they are asked "where do you see yourself in ten years?" to highly consider replying (respectfully of course) ..."honestly, I have no idea, and that's what makes life wonderful".  Better yet, I'll just do my best to live out of that montra, and maybe they'll come up with that response on their own.