Expectations and Age

I am in the final week of my current college course at Ashford (I'm doing all of my college online) and one of the discussion questions I found myself having to answer struck me as something worth everyone exploring for themselves.

Did you expect the age in which you currently are, would be different than it is?

To be honest, yes I did, at least back when I was 18. If I had my way I would have graduated from college at around 20/21 and be working in the field as a graphic designer. This did not happen and it is still not a guarantee I will be getting back into college though I am trying.

Yet it is this unexpected journey that has lead me through enlightenment and realizing more about myself than I might have while in college. I still wish I had gone to college, but I do not hold onto regret. For how I act, for how I am, I do not expect anything different. The biggest difference would have been what am I doing with my life and that is a point in which I am unhappy with.

Thanks for bringing this up. I actually have what I feel to be a funny story about this one!

I can’t say about the age I currently am, but when I was younger I expected it to be different. What I mean is that when I was a teenager I just somehow knew that when I finally became an adult I would “feel” like an adult. Problem was that I couldn’t tell you what an adult is suppose to feel like!

So, birthday after birthday passed and I never “felt” different! Maybe I just never grew up!?!?!? Or, maybe I just am the way I am suppose to be and I was expecting something different because I just didn’t know any better at the time? Anyways, I am still waiting to feel like am “over the hill” though!

Hahhahahahha

Similarly to what Wescli said, I always thought that by the time I was in my twenties (I'm 22) I would feel much more grown-up. That perhaps I would have a more adult sense of humour and that I would feel much more sure of myself.

But really, I don't really feel all that different to how I remember feeling about ten years ago. I know more stuff and I think through things a little more carefully, but I'm pretty much still a child inside :laugh:

I don't think we will ever feel different. I guess the reason is always because even though each moment we are changing with every action, the change is so small that we do not notice it. It is when we look back it is like being at the top of the mountain and looking down into the valley. You see the differences even if you do not necessarily feel them.

I to, am still in touch with my child like self. Yet I enjoy it because I can approach the world with wonder and mystery. Which is good, because that means I will never truly tire out of life. It is sad to see someone who is so tired of life that they don't want to live anymore. I would hate to loose this sense because I would loose my sense of fun. I can still run around with children and have the time of my life.

The only thing I hate is the responsibilities, my car loan, my car insurance, my other bills, feeding myself < and soon enough a college loan.

I thought the pace of change would have been quicker; reading too much science fiction as kid and watching the developments of military technology during the Cold War led me to hope that we'd be cruising around in hovering cars and populating orbital space stations by now. I guess its better the Cold War didn't really go there as the risks would have probably gotten bigger, so instead we've just settled into a lower gear of consumer related growth leading to eventual over population pressures and ethnic conflicts. Personally I had no idea how I'd feel, but I've been really terrible at predicting what I'd eventually be doing.

This may sound bad, but I actually thought i would be dead by this time. I had dreams as a teenager that I was going to die at age 37.

I bet the wife wishes I did!! :woohoo:

Alethea Thompson wrote: Did you expect the age in which you currently are, would be different than it is?

Oh man... did I ever. I don't want this to sound depressing, but I had much higher hopes for my life than what I have thus far experienced. My car accident really changed the course of every aspect of my life. But I don't regret anything. All is as it should be. It's just... unexpected

Funny I should run into this thread tonight.
I just spent the day with family, and three of my neices ages 20-26 where shocked by me. I just go along and do what feels right, but I am fifty-ish have tattoos and piercings and have spacers in my ears for BIG earrings. They seem genuinely surprised by this. I never thought about it until they mentioned it, but I certainly wouldn't have expected that from my aunt, or grandmother.
I have no idea what I expected of my life, I never actually imagined I'd make it past 40...speed kills... :whistle:
I guess as a granny, I should be baking cookies and making perserves, and knitting doilies...
wait I do that too.

Ohhhhhh yeah......lol!

I am sooooo different now than what I thought I would be 10 or 15 years ago.

I've worked at my current job for over 10 years and my friends that I've made there that have known me from Mormon to Jedi have seen a DRASTIC change in my personality.

One told me the other day, "when you were Mormon, you were boring Mike. Now you're fun Mike." LOL!

(Disclaimer: I'm NOT saying you can't be fun and a Mormon at the same time. I'm just saying I was uber-orthodox, haha.)