you were to allow yourself to fancifully daydream about where you'd want your life to be in 5 years (it does not have to be something you are working towards or think you will achieve), what would your 5 years from now life look like?
2027 - all debt paid off, take my mom on a trip, triathlon, co-leading Bible study and involvement with the teens at church, possibly taking care of my mom or stepdad, in a relationship that lasts more than 2 months, volunteering and a savings started for a trip to London and France.
Seriously, I would have never thought I'm where I'm at right now. 5 years ago was 2018. At that time I was doing 45 minutes three times a week of walk runs. A coworker had just introduced me to the foam roller and I was working hard to break up my IT band tightness.
I was living in a different house that I thought I would be retiring in and a community that I thought I was going to be part of in retirement. I thought I had found the perfect place to live.
I was just starting my involvement with the church that I was in after a two-year process of looking. I thought I found the perfect church but I also had a hurdle to get over that was a bit difficult in my study group.
I had a goldfish pond and loved taking care of the goldfish. Also my snow plow route was not too far and I liked where I was plowing. The skyscapes across the sky were amazing and I got some great pictures. At the same time and economic development was happening in my backyard and the community was protesting that. The future felt so uncertain. I also never dreamed that my income would change and grow the way it has, I was in so much debt then. I also was applying for federal jobs and wanted a job in the social security administration, I never dreamed of the pandemic capping and that changing my perspective. I also had a very difficult work situation that changed locations and atmosphere in 2020 towards a positive direction. I also had a neighbor that became my friend a mile and a half down the road but came to work where I did. Her husband already did. I never would have dreamed that she would participate in gossip about me in the future. As far as technology I didn't have internet then just like I don't know, so I was taking my Mac laptop to the library to do all of my internet stuff. I never would have dreamed of the possibilities that we have through smartphones and what I can do now through it and cheaper plans for unlimited data. I plowed snow a lot more than I have these last 2 years, I never would have dreamed that I would have been called out so few times like I was these last two years. That's been the biggest push for me to want to leave my also I never would have dreamed that I could train and run the way I did in 2020 and 2021. That's the most I've ever done in my life and the first time that people considered me an athlete. Even now I still get that from physical therapist and others without putting the mileage in that I did. Also I couldn't have ever imagine doing the gardening that I have done in managing the amount of yard that I have five years ago. The Lord has better plans than me!
