Day Two: Where I'd like to be in ten years.
Unrealistically, I'd like to be a multibillionaire, married to my perfect woman, happy as can be, and doing whatever my heart desires. Realistically, I'd like to be done with school, starting a job I like doing, be in a meaningful relationship, and be generally happy. Those seem like pretty simple and attainable goals right? Right. I like to set easy goals I know I can reach. Be done with school in ten years? Depending on what area of medicine I want to pursue I can do that. I think most residencies are around 4 years or so. So after two more years of undergrad, 4 of medical school and around 4 years for my residency if it's that long and I'll just barely make my goal. It's crazy to think that depending on the required residency time, I may or may not still be "learning" when I'm almost 30 in a decade. Sure it's not the typical school, but since I'm still learning it still counts. Also, this doesn't take into account if I don't get into medical school and have to reapply after gaining for experience. I'd also like to think that after spending all this time around other doctors, I'll have found some job somewhere that I like to do. Since yesterday's topic was relationships it was still fresh on my mind and so I had to include it in where I'd like to be in ten years. I know it's not really the most important thing, but I definitely wouldn't mind being with a special someone at that point in my life. The generally happy though is objective. It all really depends on what my definition is of "happy" now and in the future. I know for a fact that my definition of happy will change in the next decade, the only question is will I meet those new standards in ten years or not. I'm fairly confident though that I will be generally happy in ten years. I'll have gotten through most of school, become more mature, living on my own, and just creating my own life for myself. That all may be scary, but it's also exciting and that's why I think I'll be happy then. While the new and unknown scare the crap out of me and make me super nervous, it's exciting to forge my own path in life. I still wish though that sometimes I could redo some of the decisions in the past.
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