Self-reflection meme

[azekeil]

Has your life gone the way you expected it to? What did you imagine your life would be like now when you were a child? When you were a teenager? Shortly after education? Somewhere between leaving education and now?

If it's different to what you expected, why?

What about your life in the future? Do you think it will actually turn out that way, or do you think it will be different? Why?

Comments

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Fascinating.

I can really relate to how you must have felt at each stage of your life.

I find it very weird to look back at how I thought in the past and realise I was wrong. Trouble is, I can't think of anything where I was wrong enough in a significant way, which is distressing. I must have them, just can't think of them right now. More thought needed.

Anyway, it's of interest to me now because I want to do the impossible: find some way to get through to a teenager that they really won't know their own mind; we as adults (hah!) are still struggling to figure out how to live our lives, and still get it wrong now (do we?)

More thoughts and perhaps a conclusion coming soon in a post near you.