Such a difficult assignment… When I think about what life might look like in 5 years I automatically focus on my personal life, how it will look different from what it looks like today, my achievements, and not any technical developments.
In 5 years I will have finished my Business Studies.
Hopefully I will know what to do with my education.
Hopefully I will know where I want to work and live.
Hopefully I will be on my way there.
My goal is not having spent one day looking back wondering “What if?” - having no regrets.
My brother always talks about the Mayan 2012 Apocalypse; he is so sure it will actually happen. It is such a scary thought that the world will end December 21 2012. This would leave us with about a year and a half before it is all over and you can’t help but think about what you would do, or what you would do differently, if this actually does happen. Is studying really the best thing to do, or should you be out living life, travelling, seeing the world, before it ends?
I feel that this doomsday prediction in one way goes hand in and with my “no regret”-life philosophy.
So my achievements and goals for the next few years is to live life to the fullest, never wonder “what if”, and to live every day as if it’s my last.
When it comes to thinking long-term (not considering the Mayan Apocalypse) you would probably get more technical, thinking about inventions to make every-day-life more efficient and easy for everyone. But for me, I thought about my hometown Fjällbacka and about surrounding, old, fisherman-communities. All I want is for these towns to prosper and expand and become more than they are today which is ghost-towns in winter and huge tourist-towns in summer. At the moment you go from one extreme to another. I would want for big companies to put their factories there so that more people could work, and above all, so that people wouldn’t have to leave Fjällbacka because there are no jobs there. I wish I could stay in Fjällbacka forever, but you have to be rational… When I finish school in 5 years, there will hardly be any business-related jobs there, and I will have to do, like so many others before me have, move to bigger cities.
When looking at the history of these towns, and the fact that more and more people leave them, I do know that the likelihood of the sort of expansion I wish for is slim to none, but a girl can dream, can’t she?
