A lot can happen in 5 years
I wish I was 27. I'll most likely be out of law school, engaged, and having a more solid direction towards my future. Or maybe not. But as the title says, a lot can happen in five years, and life experience is always a plus to have.
However, when I think of the title, I think of all the drama that's up ahead. Granted it wouldn't be all drama, but 5 years! 365 x 5 = 1825 days. Lots of days for things to happen, deteriorate, get better, and coincide with bad timing. Where is the guarantee that something good will happen at the end? Oh, the suspense!
It's like there's this book at Borders that in spite of all the mixed reviews, it was agreed upon by all that it was unpredictable from beginning to end. It is a book best read more than once. Like Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere, this book introduces a dizzying multitude of characters, and one never knows which characters will become deeply involved as the story goes on (maybe it's everybody!). There may be seemingly unexpected twists and turns, but looking back, you can see the artistic unity; basically, everything that happens could have been seen coming. This is called "Your Future." Open your copy today, you won't regret it! Still, it sounds exciting and all, like when Dawn goes back to school, when she takes her exams, writes her papers, or whom she dates or fancies, but will I like the book? Is it worth taking home and reading and experiencing an emotional rollercoaster again and again?
So, given that hopefully I'll be engaged and out of law school at 27, my future will answer all my present questions in such painful increments: it will so much as induce apoplexy on my end when I find out whom I'll be engaged to and from what institution will I have graduated from. Forget about apoplexy, what about possible soul-crushing moments, like relationships taking a dip, fallings out, possible radical career changes, unbearable stress and the painful journey towards survival of my 20s? Not to mention my morale. Will I be happy? Will I be pretty? Will I be rich?
Now we all know the answer to that.
"Que sera, sera, whatever will be, will be, the future's not ours to see. Que sera, sera."
However, when I think of the title, I think of all the drama that's up ahead. Granted it wouldn't be all drama, but 5 years! 365 x 5 = 1825 days. Lots of days for things to happen, deteriorate, get better, and coincide with bad timing. Where is the guarantee that something good will happen at the end? Oh, the suspense!
It's like there's this book at Borders that in spite of all the mixed reviews, it was agreed upon by all that it was unpredictable from beginning to end. It is a book best read more than once. Like Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere, this book introduces a dizzying multitude of characters, and one never knows which characters will become deeply involved as the story goes on (maybe it's everybody!). There may be seemingly unexpected twists and turns, but looking back, you can see the artistic unity; basically, everything that happens could have been seen coming. This is called "Your Future." Open your copy today, you won't regret it! Still, it sounds exciting and all, like when Dawn goes back to school, when she takes her exams, writes her papers, or whom she dates or fancies, but will I like the book? Is it worth taking home and reading and experiencing an emotional rollercoaster again and again?
So, given that hopefully I'll be engaged and out of law school at 27, my future will answer all my present questions in such painful increments: it will so much as induce apoplexy on my end when I find out whom I'll be engaged to and from what institution will I have graduated from. Forget about apoplexy, what about possible soul-crushing moments, like relationships taking a dip, fallings out, possible radical career changes, unbearable stress and the painful journey towards survival of my 20s? Not to mention my morale. Will I be happy? Will I be pretty? Will I be rich?
Now we all know the answer to that.
"Que sera, sera, whatever will be, will be, the future's not ours to see. Que sera, sera."
posted by Dawn at 11:24 PM
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