Ten Years x 3

Footsteps in Life.

Occasionally we sit down and think, how did we get to where we are at this very moment in time? Which road did we take to end up sitting in this exact spot having these exact thoughts. Can you answer how you ended up where you are now? Do you remember which roads you travelled down to end up at the point you are at now? Can you remember the people you have met along the way?

The Ten Years x 3 rule is simple. You write down where you were and what you were doing 10 years ago. You do the same for what you are doing now and then either where you WANT to be or where you think you will be and what you will be doing in 10 years time. Its a real eye opener and made me remember things I thought I had been able to forget, made me realise how lucky I am now and how my hopes and dreams have changed for the future.

So here goes....my Ten Years x 3

Ten Years Ago
I was just coming to the end of my time at my first job post graduation. They made my position redundant, I remember it clearly because I had just bought a "new" second hand car 2 weeks prior and my first thought was..."How on earth am I going to pay for this loan now??". I was housesitting for 3 months for a friend of my parents, enjoying the freedom on having my own place without the expense. I was single, which was good and bad, I enjoyed having my freedom but desperately wanted someone to share the good times with, like most I wanted to feel needed, desirable, attractive. I got a job as a Medical Receptionist Trainee 2 weeks after I got made redundant. Two weeks after I started that job, I was involved in a pretty bad car accident, where a car rammed the back of my car, spun me round 190 and I almost ended up in a ditch. My car was a write off, I had only had it 6 weeks, I was gutted. I got a bomb to replace my "nice" car and settled into my new job.

Now
I am coming up to my 7 year wedding anniversary in November. A year after I started that Medical Reception Trainee 10 years ago, my training came to an end and they decided not to keep me on - I thought it was the end of my world but it was the best thing that happened to me. I packed up 6 weeks later and with a nannying job to go to, I headed to London. I met my now husband a week after arriving in London, via the net and the rest they say is history. We own two houses in two different places, have two cars, two dogs and more fish and aquariums than I care to count! We have everything that you could possibly want to make you happy, except of course the one thing I covet the most - babies, babies and more babies! But hopefully they will come....
We are planning on a major lifestyle change, we are moving into our other house, slowing our life down and have decided to start living rather than just existing.

In Ten Years
We will still be happy, in love and enjoying life. I have no doubt that I have found the love of my life and my soulmate. We will be enjoying each day and only working as much as we need to fund our life. We will be living each day and not merely existing in it. We will have 1, no 2 no no 3 rugrats running around in our lives bringing us immense happiness. Happiness is the only real thing I crave and I see bucketloads of that in my future - fingers crossed.