LIZtomania

"Don't tell me about logic.  How dare you?!  Can't you see how happy I am????"

Cooking dinner with no recipe or firm concept.

Oh.  My.  Goodness.  *dies*

This is something I think about constantly:  Where will I be in 10 years?  By that time I will be a 33 year-old woman.  It's funny to think about sometimes, because 10 years ago, I had imagined that I would be settled down with a family by the age of 33.  I also thought that I wanted to be a veterinarian, so at that age I would probably just be starting up my career (medical school takes forever to complete).  But as I live through life's realities and begin to discover new things about myself and the world around me, I realize that where I thought I'd be 10 years ago is completely different from where I think I'm going now.

At the age of 33, I'll probably still be non-married, living in a one-bedroom apartment, and pursuing one of my many prospective careers.  This is the most realistic prediction I can make.  Nowadays, I am seeing more 30-somethings who are living much like 20-somethings.  They don't have families of their own yet, and many are career-orientated, single people.  I just figure that I will follow the paradigm.

So, I've pretty much established that I probably won't be married with kids in 10 years.  As for my career and place of residence, I have multiple ideas.  Primarily, I would like to have my Clinical Psychology degree by then, preferably my Psy.D.  I'd like to have my own private practice, but if I could just work within a hospital, that would be okay, too.  Dance therapy is also an option for me.  On the more ambitious side, I would like to be a writer.  In that case, I could see myself working in a major city.  I might stay in my homeland, Chicago, or move to good-o'l, stereotypical New York City.  I would also love to live somewhere in Los Angeles, one day.  My dream is to live in London, at some point in my life, so who knows?  I might be a writer living in the U.K. in 10 years.  That would be the ideal life.

I could make that dream happen, if I tried really hard to attain it.  However, at my current point in life, I see this as mostly a dream, and less of an attainable goal.  Typical factors get in the way like financial responsibilities, and stupid millennial indecisiveness.  Hopefully, in the next year or so I can draw up a better plan for my life so I can have a clearer picture of myself at the age of 33.