What a stud.
What the heck?!!! Why are you reading this before Monday????
Actually, it will technically be Monday in less than 30 minutes so I guess it's OK.
I've decided that since everyone likes the question posts ..... OK, only my sister likes the question posts, but too dang bad ...... I am toying with the idea of doing one every Monday. Thus, in case you're reading this at 2:00 a.m. and are a bit slow .... the title, Monday Musings.
Don't sigh ... that was the best I could come up. There's no day of the week that starts with a "Q" so I couldn't use the word "questions". If someone comes up with something better I might reconsider the title.
Probably not, but you can try.
Anyway, here's the musing question for the week:
If your 18 year old self could see you now, would she/he be surprised at what you're doing with your life? If so (or if not) why?
I'll start ....
My 18 year old self would drop cold. Out. Into a coma. No "ifs, ands or buts". My 18 year old self didn't really want children, but thought she might be talked into one. Maybe two if given the right jewelry.
She also didn't think she would get married before the age of 30.
And she was going to pursue acting when she got out of college.
One out of three ain't bad.
It takes a lot of acting to be a mom.
And a lot more to make people think you're "normal".
Your turn.
Discuss amongst yourselves.
17 comments:
I would have to say my 18 year old self would look at me and say what the heck? How in the heck did that happen? As you know when I was 18 I was madly and deeply in love with a boy from high school. We dated for a few years (on and off) and then I would have to say we went our seperate ways. We never really broke up. 20 years and sad to say 2 husbands later we reunited and got married. So yeah, my 18 year old self would be in major shock. Thrilled but in shock. Thanks for the question! I have a reason to look forward to Mondays now. Thanks!! Love you tons.
I am certain that my 18 year old self would be very disappointed in my boring, suburban housewife life that I am leading. I feel blessed by boring and blessed that the wild child of 18 survived!
My 18-year-old self would think it's cool that I work at camp with my husband. I think I would've been surprised that I only have one child after five years of marriage...
At 18, I was dating my now-husband, so I wouldn't have been surprised about that, and I thought I'd be a pastor's wife, so being in ministry wouldn't surprise me much, but probably being in camping would, because I didn't really know that people worked full-time in camping until my hubby started looking into it. :)
My 18 old self never did the math to know I would be alive in 2000 so let alone 2008. You know when I was younger the movie 2001 Space Odyssey came out and I just thought that is so far into the future I will never see 2001. Of course my husband says I shouldn't tell people that. All that to say I don't think I would have imagined my life as it is now. Grateful for my husband of 12 years and our two boys age 9 and 7. Good question for a Monday! Hope your week goes well!
Love,
Julie
I don't think my 18 year old self would have been too shocked, but just that I'm a little behind schedule. My 18 year self never knew I was as slow as I am. By now my 18 year self would have kids finishing up high school instead of entering 2nd and 4th grades. my 18 year self would be celebrating my 20-something anniversary, instead of 15. My 18 year self would by now be published world-wide, instead of just trying to get in a couple magazines and working on a first book. yeah--my 18 year self thought life would be a snap and run on my timetable...my 18 year self had a lot to learn! susan
My 18 year old self probably wouldn't be too surprised at what my (almost) 31 year old self's life looks like. She would, however, be MORTIFIED at the (almost) 31 year old self's waistline!!!
My life turned out better than I could have imagined. The guy I was dating at 18 turns out to be gay . . . that explains alot of things.
OMG I'm blind!!!! And I'm pregnant at 43????!!! Oh, that's my butt!
Why am I wearing scrubs?? EEWWWW! I put my hands in peoples mouths!! NASTY!! Hmm...who's that stud? He called me wife??!!! DAANNGG! And two beautiful daughters?? God, what did I do that was so worthy of this? I lost two dads, but You have given me two new ones that are so special! I'm a "mommy's girl" and you have given me two extra MOM'S to cry and whine to. Two more sisters too??!! (yep, I knew I had enough brothers...I'm NOT surprised that I didn't get to get married until I was 29! And to someone who lived 2000 miles away!!)
WOW! GOD IS AWESOME!
My 18 year old self wanted to be a famous country singer, but she also wanted a good life, with a husband who worshipped her and loved to go horseback riding with her. She wasn't sure when she wanted children, but knew that she wanted to rodeo and travel before she did. She also, however...had no self-confidence and felt just about zero self-worth. At 18, she was lost and confused and scared. I think she would be very pleasantly surprised to learn that it all turned out so well:) She would be surprised to know that she loves herself and has a wonderful family who also love her.
She would be disappointed that she never became famous, but thrilled that she is happy and lives a life filled with horses and pets. (even though her husband wont ride with her!) Mostly, she would be happy to know that she really IS a good person, even though she didn't think that she was.
My life now is very blessed and I have come a long way. I am blessed with love, trust, faith, kindness, happiness, laughter, wealth, family & friends. It's all good.
My 18 year old self wanted to be a famous country singer, but she also wanted a good life, with a husband who worshipped her and loved to go horseback riding with her. She wasn't sure when she wanted children, but knew that she wanted to rodeo and travel before she did. She also, however...had no self-confidence and felt just about zero self-worth. At 18, she was lost and confused and scared. I think she would be very pleasantly surprised to learn that it all turned out so well:) She would be surprised to know that she loves herself and has a wonderful family who also love her.
She would be disappointed that she never became famous, but thrilled that she is happy and lives a life filled with horses and pets. (even though her husband wont ride with her!) Mostly, she would be happy to know that she really IS a good person, even though she didn't think that she was.
My life now is very blessed and I have come a long way. I am blessed with love, trust, faith, kindness, happiness, laughter, wealth, family & friends. It's all good.
My 18 year old self would be shocked and probably would not believe that 40-something woman was actually her! Once someone was able to convince her that was seriously the person she would turn out to be 25 years down the road...(and it would take a lot of convincing- because the 18 year old me thought she knew everything! and those who did not agree with her opinion, well they must have been really stupid or something??)
Well she would probably be appaulled that I now eat food with a "face" and that I don't always buy organic. She would probably picket my house because I drive a SUV and don't recycle as well as I should. And she might place me on the PETA most wanted list because my family and I all wear leather belts, shoes, and a couple of us actually have leather jackets.
She would think I "sold out" because I no longer have the youthful idealistic view of how things "should" be done in a perfect world. And that if it comes down to sacraficing the life of a lab rat(or any lab animal) in order to find a better way to save the 3,000 to 4,000 babies and children who need shunt surgery each year, or whom are born with a degenerative genetic disease. Or to find a better treatment for cancer or leukemia- I say sorry rat, and thanks for your service!
Yeah, my 18 year old self might just jump off a bridge if she met me??? However my current self is very happy that I have evolved and changed over the years- I am very happy with my current self (although it would be nice to have that 18 year old body ;-)
My eighteen year old self had no expectations except that I wanted to get out of my parents’ house. There were too many children there and I was the oldest girl. Need I say more? When I was seventeen, my plan was to go to college. When I was seventeen and a half, I fell in love. Within eight months, I was married and totally forgot about college. So my eighteen year old self was blissfully ignorant, living one day at a time, and enjoying life. She would not have been surprised.
OK...the "external me" would say "WHAT A DORK! You brush little girls hair, go camping with your family and are in the MILITARY??? Is your house the same one the Cleaver's lived in?? You got married? Shouldn't you be out sowing your wild oats?
The "internal me" would say, "What took you so long to get married? You thought you'd be married by 21. I'm impressed that you've stayed married this long, and you have two beautiful daughters and an awesome wife!! I'm very proud of you for stopping your wicked ways. I honestly thought you'd be dead or in jail by now. Keep it up and hang on to all three of those girls! God has blessed you!
Love Me
My 18 year old self would be totally blown away that I am married to an attorney, live in the house that I live in. Belong to the church that I do. Generally everything about my life would blow my 18 year old mind. My life far exceeds what my expectations were if there were any. God has been so good and so faithful to me to do exceedingly, abundantly above what I could have asked for. May He meet you today and lift your load some. Blessings on your day and week.
I had to think about this one for a while. when I was 18 I wanted to be a "MD/PhD" researcher/doctor but instead I ended up going into wildlife ecology which suits me so much better, and I had NO idea I wanted to be a writer. Not even on the radar. I think my 18-year old self would not be too terribly surprised with my life, but think it was pretty cool. But what I REALLY think that my 18-yr self would be shocked at is all the stupid pitiful whining I do sometimes about things and situations in my own little way (and how much I second-guess myself). Just get over it already, she would say! ;) In the words of "Richard from Texas" in Eat Pray Love, You need to get a Backbone where your Wishbone is. Or somethng like that. So I think I'm going to type that out and put it on my mirror.
My eighteen year old self thought that life could never get worse because that was the year my dad left. I thought I would never find anyone to love me and that if I did I would never be able to trust them. Little did I know that when I was nineteen my mom would commit suicide and that life could be a lot worse. A lot. But that was also the year that I found the love of my life. So I think that my eighteen year old self would be sad to see that I have lived all these years without Mom, but she would be indredibly over joyed that I am happily, and trustingly, married with two beautiful children. And that I finally learned how to make gravy.
oh i forgot to add that my 18-yr old self would be mad that I abandoned my vegetarianism! But probably understanding since I still do try to eat low on the food chain :) she'd probably actually be shocked that I like to pick up snakes and slog through swamps and trek through Nepal and let sleeping black bears lie on my lap, since at 18 I was a Texas big hair and makeup wild rebellious suburban teenager (tho a lost one at that). I wore so much makeup that it was like 1" thick and my hair was so full of hairspray and mousse it looked like a white girls Afro. What was I thinking? Maybe you should ask for the next question, what would our adult self think of our 18-yr old self if she met her? :)
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