The 5 Year Plan
I have this group of friends and we joke a lot about our “where we see ourselves in 5 years”. It’s a fascinating thing, you know. On one hand, we all know that significant life changes can happen in 5 years – ones can that alter your course permanently. And on the other hand, we know that sometimes nothing changes - at least nothing that feels worth talking about. Naturally, we fear that nothing will change... or we fear that everything will change.... and as good friends do, we occasionally get all bunched up about it together. In February ‘09, soon after I returned from my stint in Thailand, I sat down and drew up a rather detailed expectation of where I thought I’d be 5 years from then. I tried to be as realistic as possible, marked “read this in 2014” on the front, and then stuck it away in a box somewhere labeled “important papers”. Maybe this was the product of my casual fascination with time capsules? Looking back, I think what actually prompted me to write it was t...