30-Day Challenge:
Day 2: Where you want to be in 10
years:
Just like driving and looking
through the rearview mirror; the next chapters in our life are partially
dictated by our past. As we drive onward, time passes and we get older, but
before we switch lanes, and change the course of our path, we must check the
mirror and look over our shoulder; we must look to the past. “Objects in mirror
are closer than they appear.” Ten years ago, I was 12 years old, amidst the woes
of 6th grade. I had braces, tight fitted clothes and “best friends”
that I never talk to today. Looking in the rearview mirror, my time as a
twelve-year-old girl appears further away than it truly is. That girl had not
yet experienced high school or college, the writhing pains of a broken heart,
or importance of family. These life experiences are what make our past appear
further away than it really is. The 12-year-old girl innocently walked around
with concerns that seem foreign to the 22-year-old girl driving today.
Looking at the road ahead we need a
safety warning, “Objects ahead are further away than they appear.” When we
think about our future, we often think of it as a mirage looming right around
the corner. The 32-year-old girl that looms large in my future appears closer
to my 22-year-old reality than the 12-year-old girl of the past. Gaining this
type of perspective allows for a more hopeful picture of the future. When I
compare the 12-year-old girl to the 22-year old girl, I can only think of all the
things I wish I could have told her. Although I am struggling with the girl I
am today, the past ten years of experience have drastically differentiated me
from the girl I was. I can’t imagine what another 10 years will teach me. Instead
of speeding down the road with the idea that the future appears closer than it
does in reality, we must remind ourselves to look back to the past and notice
that objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.
That being said, in 10 years, I
hope I will have a career that I love, friends that I cherish and regularly
see, and a husband or boyfriend that loves me for my faults. More important
than anything, I hope that I will have learned true self-love and the gift of
living a true and fulfilling life. It’s nice to know that I have time and so
many life experiences ahead of me before I truly am 32. I can’t imagine all the
changes and things I will learn before that day arrives.
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