10 years later....

we were in restoran hong lim, SS15 when i asked :
"what do you think you'll be doing in 10 years' time? what would you have achieved by then?"


hy answered :
1) don't HAVE to work, but will have no money problems
2) might be doing some form of volunteer work
3) married, hopefully to a guy as devoted to his girl as wall-e is


yj :
1) would have started working
2) would have reached senior management level


ey :
1) working for fun
2) married with kids (two)
3) wake up at whatever time i want, can take my own time to talk a walk before going to do whatever i want to do
4) have time for my kids when i get back from work


mc :
1) have a very nice single storey bungalow/ semi-d with a lot of land, a corner lot single storey terrace also can
2) a dog, or two (need not be a beagle)
3) not much work, but a lot of money
4) work comprise of approving/ not approving something
5) would have backpacked for 6 months
6) would gone bald


tf
1) still playing psp
2) still playing wii
3) see the world
4) debt free


me
1) ceo of own successful company
2) able to dictate my own time
3) have a villa in bangkok
4) hopefully my very exclusive club for very-active-old-people-with-a-life will be up and running



funny how this question is answered in a more cautious manner than it if it was asked 10 years ago... and how the answers are preceeded by "i should be" or "i think" or "hopefully" instead of "i want to be" or "i am going to be"

funny how being older seem to mean we have shorter time... when we actually didn't know how much time we would have had when we were young (i mean a lot of ppl die young... especially the talented ones)...

or were the answers affected by the fact that the previous goals stated were not achieved? not realising that it is neither due to lack of opportunities nor lack of ability, but lack of courage and lack of will power/ discipline...?