What will you be like?

Wow! What rosy futures you have planned. I see things quite differently. I expect to have to slave away at some rotten job for some lousy employer-or-other until the day I die. Pensions will have been abolished by the time I reach 70, in order that greedy corporations may make a better profit. My only hope is that I can make some money on the side through writing, although that seems unlikely because I don't have a "niche" audience.
I will probably be listening to old rock music that nobody will understand anymore because protest and social disagreement has been declared illegal. I'll probably be a hermit.

well first of all i hope to retain my mind because it is something i greatly value and i feel that not being able to use it would be worse than death. i would wish to remain in shape and have a relationship with my family. i will probably be the old man who sits in the park looking off into space and thinking deeply and occasionally scribbling thoughts in his notebook. :D

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Originally Posted by Manfred

Wow! What rosy futures you have planned.

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At times I feel my future will be very dismal, and sometimes I feel as if I may have no future at all. However, I think it is better to have a little hope for the future and also try to work at making things better for myself right now.

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To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic

Albert Schweitzer

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Sorry if that seems facetious, it isn't meant to be.

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Originally Posted by miss tenderness

Seems like Willy in the Death of a Salesman Mono!

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Nah, I did not mean to outline my future so depressingly. :lol:
On the brighter side, I would likely hope to continue anything artistic - attending opera and classical concerts as frequently as possible, continuing my writing, reading lots (and expanding my mini-library), walking about nature (as I do now; and I try to maintain exercise for that reason, among others), and certainly maintaining my great desire to help people.
Though we pretend to visualize the age of '70,' I intend on continuing my passion for the applied sciences and medical field. Though I would probably not continue such a challenging occupation in nursing, I would hope someday to work as a nurse practitioner (similar to an MD), or something. Even if I did not see patients, whom I love seeing and helping, regardless, perhaps I could always work in research or work as a nursing professor; no matter how old I would grow, I would not want to discontinue helping others. :)

do not panic mono lol I'm sure you'll never be that sort of men, I mean Willy's sort. I just remmbered him when I read the begining of your description .

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Originally Posted by literaturerocks

well first of all i hope to retain my mind because it is something i greatly value and i feel that not being able to use it would be worse than death.

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I'll give you million points for this point Rock.

On second thought, I think I'll be dead before I reach seventy. :)

interesting game! it remind me of another similar game that what will you be in 25years.
briefly, I hope I will I be a gentle old lady,a wise mother ,a nice grandmother,a qualified and happy wife , at last , a good person.

That's an all around good goal. I guess what a lot of us are trying to say, in short :)

If God wants us to be here that long, I may be more of a nurse; Leo will be 80 (a record age for the men in his family). Myself, I will be spry, grandmothers on both sides of my family were still dancing into their 80's. I will have harp sessions with my children and grandchildren, perhaps we will have made several albums together. I will still be stitching and I'll make all kinds of gifts for friends and families. I will be frustrated that I still will not have time to have read all that I've wanted to read. I will tell stories of my childhood because my favorite old ladies do the same for me now. I'll also tell stories that those ladies have told me. My favorite one is one my Irish grandmother told me: When she was a girl in Ireland, a friend of hers lived alone and like most people was very poor. But when this friend would go to town to the market, she would leave her cottage door open and have tea ready on the table. One day, my grandmother asked her, "Why do you leave your door open like that? Why don't you lock it to keep the thieves out?" She answered, "Oh, no child! Suppose some poor soul was passing and needed a cup of tea! They could come in and help themselves!"

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Originally Posted by Shea

My favorite one is one my Irish grandmother told me: When she was a girl in Ireland, a friend of hers lived alone and like most people was very poor. But when this friend would go to town to the market, she would leave her cottage door open and have tea ready on the table. One day, my grandmother asked her, "Why do you leave your door open like that? Why don't you lock it to keep the thieves out?" She answered, "Oh, no child! Suppose some poor soul was passing and needed a cup of tea! They could come in and help themselves!"

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Did she really do that?? how generous :nod:

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Originally Posted by Madhuri

Did she really do that?? how generous :nod:

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That was just the mentality in that part of Ireland at the time. I would have loved to have lived there then!

I plan to work most of the remaining years until 70. But when I am old, besides taking care of my health I would like to learn preparing delicacies, a little bit of gardening. I would also like to rediscover love with my husband (who is yet to come in my life), as all these years we would be running for our jobs, managing this and that, I would like to spend time with him (our kids would have a life of their own and hardly have time for us). I would like to do for him all that I wanted to do but have missed. :) Also, reconnect with our roots, vist our family farm, it has so many types of trees, Mango, Guava, Jamun (dont know what its called in English), pomegranate and a whole range (I know their Hindi names only) :D . It is a beautiful and calm place, away from the hustle n bustle of city life. I wish that it remains the same the next time I visit there.

That is all that has come to my mind, but if there is more I would definitely come back.

That sounds so peaceful, Madhuri! I have a feeling I'll have to stay at least near a city. Leo is very much a people person and I'm determined he will out-live me! But maybe we can visit you at your farm and have a nice cup o tea! :)

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Originally Posted by Shea

That sounds so peaceful, Madhuri! I have a feeling I'll have to stay at least near a city. Leo is very much a people person and I'm determined he will out-live me! But maybe we can visit you at your farm and have a nice cup o tea! :)

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Why not, you are most welcome :) Whenever you wish to get away from the city you could visit us. But I have this feeling that by that time even that peaceful place would be buzzing with activity. That only time can tell.