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?
She most definitely can. :)
SvaraRaderaI'd have to say that one easily tends to think to one's own life or situation when thinking of the future. Probably since one might feel that it's one of few things one can actually have an impact on.
I did wonder about your explanation of "living out life" as opposed to studying. Was this your way of insinuating that studying isn't "living life"? And if so, does "living life" only pertain activities performed outdoors?
I enjoyed your post. And for the sake of all of us, I hope your brothers rantings will not come true.
Hello! I must tell you that for one year ago, in May, I fell in love, I fell in love with Fjällbacka! Every summer I go to the west coast for at least a week. I have something inside me that forces me to the coast, I think I have lived an earlier life near the sea. Back to Fjällbacka, it was a magical place and it was hard to just be there over the day, I felt so calm and satisfied and did not want to leave the place. I really hope just as you do, that these small fisherman communities will survive and expand so the rest of the swedish population have a chance to visit or even move to these magical communities along our west coast.
SvaraRaderaI agree that it is sad that smaller towns disappear. It seems that we rather put our self in small appartments instead of having a bigger one in a smaller town, or even a big house.The urbanization have not stopped and I do not think that it will in the nearest future. When I looked at arbetsförmedlingens homepage, there were about 300 economic jobs and over 150 was in Stockholm and in Karlstad there was only one.
SvaraRaderaAbout the 2012, I could not give a rats tail about it. It is scaremongering, and a big coincident where a guy with a sort of "coinflipping" predicted world war 2 and two other events (can not remember them) and now this, 2012. Perhaps the world will end, in another context. Something big might happen so that we have to change our habbits, lifestyle etc.
I think the world will go to a better world.