One of the prompts today on my website was “Is your life today what you pictured a year ago?” That really got me thinking because of the things I have been learning. 

First off, yes and no. I haven’t accomplished everything that I maybe thought I would like to, but the things I haven’t accomplished have been things I didn’t put enough effort into throughout the year, so they didn’t get done. But the major goals I have set over the course of this year I am accomplishing or have accomplished and I am headed in the direction I want to be going.

I am not exactly where I want to be because of time management, which I have been learning more about and doing better on. The other part is not really understanding how long new challenges and goals will take. Sometimes I am overly optimistic about how much time I can truly devote to things. This doesn’t mean I’ve failed though, it just means I need to adjust my timeframe to something more realistic.

But, this is not exactly what I was thinking on when I read this prompt. I am learning more and more that the future us should not come about willy-nilly, but so many peoples future really is happenstance. In one year, 5 years, 10 years time, if we have been working on our goals, working on learning, working on our end goals, we should be pretty close to where we want to be in any given timeframe, and not surprised or disappointed by where we end up. 

In the end, it will either be happiness, because we have been working on it all our lives, or it will be discontent, because we wasted the time we had on things that ultimately didn’t matter, but were easy or convenient at the time. We are in charge of our own futures, no one else is responsible for us. Only we can control the end results.