10 year plan
I like it when the aircraft has soared up into the sky cruising above the clouds. the space around you just makes you feel so small. it feels like the flight,just like the sky, would just keep going on and on and on. looking outside the window, i see puffy clouds so white and pure like cotton laid like a carpet on a floor of different shades of blue. the serenity, the endlessness, the peace and quiet makes me look back and think. this happens to me all the time. i start to imagine things, daydream, remember the past or plan my future. this time, this morning, i was looking back and planning my next moves.
when i was younger, i read my kindergarten yearbook on which i (probably) had written that "when i grow up i want to be a cpa lawyer". i couldnt have possibly known what that is at age 7, my parents had decided that for me i guess. in highschool, we were asked to write down on a piece of paper what we see ourselves will be in ten years and this was to go in the yearbook. i forgot what i wrote down but i know it has the same ring as growing up to be a cpa lawyer. next year would be the 10th year since i graduated highschool. i did graduate accountancy 5 years later and worked for some time in the commerce industry but i am not a cpa and i am nowhere near being a lawyer. did i want to be a certified accountant? yes. did i want to be a lawyer? yes. so what happened? i have no idea. but its obvious that i didnt want it so much cos if i did id have gotten what i wanted.
now at 25, im still a bit confused about what i really want to do. my midday daydreaming has helped me come up with another plan (among other plans) that i have for the future. stay in this line of work for at least 2 years but with another employer. resign and do a full time review for the cpa exam when im 28. get married at 29 after having passed the exams. have one child and work at home doing internet based jobs for certified accountants. when my child is 2 years old, id go back to school and take up law. after 4 years, id be 34, id graduate law and a year after at 35 im a lawyer. when you daydream, all seems pretty simple and easy and even impossible situations seem normal and not uncommon. on another clear day, with just the right combination of cirrus and cumulus clouds 35,000 feet up in the air and the blue sea of space surrounding the metal tube i work in, maybe i could dream up a better dream.
when i was younger, i read my kindergarten yearbook on which i (probably) had written that "when i grow up i want to be a cpa lawyer". i couldnt have possibly known what that is at age 7, my parents had decided that for me i guess. in highschool, we were asked to write down on a piece of paper what we see ourselves will be in ten years and this was to go in the yearbook. i forgot what i wrote down but i know it has the same ring as growing up to be a cpa lawyer. next year would be the 10th year since i graduated highschool. i did graduate accountancy 5 years later and worked for some time in the commerce industry but i am not a cpa and i am nowhere near being a lawyer. did i want to be a certified accountant? yes. did i want to be a lawyer? yes. so what happened? i have no idea. but its obvious that i didnt want it so much cos if i did id have gotten what i wanted.
now at 25, im still a bit confused about what i really want to do. my midday daydreaming has helped me come up with another plan (among other plans) that i have for the future. stay in this line of work for at least 2 years but with another employer. resign and do a full time review for the cpa exam when im 28. get married at 29 after having passed the exams. have one child and work at home doing internet based jobs for certified accountants. when my child is 2 years old, id go back to school and take up law. after 4 years, id be 34, id graduate law and a year after at 35 im a lawyer. when you daydream, all seems pretty simple and easy and even impossible situations seem normal and not uncommon. on another clear day, with just the right combination of cirrus and cumulus clouds 35,000 feet up in the air and the blue sea of space surrounding the metal tube i work in, maybe i could dream up a better dream.
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