Ten years ago today....did any predictions for your life come true?

I first became self employed ten years ago and I was busy starting up my own business. I ran that business for five years and then I concentrated on making money online, but I was doing something completely different then to what I do now.

My life has also changed dramatically in ways I never imagined. I am living in a different city now and I am no longer in a relationship. I'm glad things don't always turn out as predicted, it makes life more exciting. I like the experiences I gain from having big changes in my life.

I don't know anyone who has actually lived the life they thought they would in high school. Way back when I still believed I lived in a fantasy world. One in which I completely controlled my own destiny. I vowed to live a particular way in order to avoid the same mistakes my mother did.

Well, some 15 years later, here I am walking a mile in my mothers shoes. Been through divorce, without a house to call mine, children by different dads, broke deadbeat ones to boot, finally returning to college, and scraping to make ends meet.
Is this life I thought I would live? Absolutely not! One thing I've learned tho, is to never say never. All of the things I ever said I would never do, endded up happening. But all the things I was determined to accomplish, I have either finished, or mae heads way on. So, its better to plan on the positives than try to avoid the negatives.

I've lost all track of all the kids in my year book... save one. She is my very best friend from childhood and we are still in contact. She trained in high school at a vocational school that was affiliated with our school and she trained to be a cook. When she graduated and went to culinary school..she did go to work as a chef... but that isn't what she made her life's career.. she has two businesses and does very well for herself, and she is a wife and now a grandmother.

I was going to be a wife and mother. I did that.. then divorced.. became a nurse and raised my daughter by myself.. and now I am a writer for hire. I love being a writer more than almost anything.

Hmm.... it depends... I can say that if I had made a prediction about 15 years ago, I would be dead wrong. TOo many things happened in my life that I wouldn't even consider at that time. We live and learn:)
However if I had made a prediction about 9-10 years ago, I would be right for the most part.
I still have a few friends from high school, although they are not even close to me - we have an ocean between us - but we are still in touch often.
DOn't know of any that have been in jail from that group. But many have had some curve balls thrown in their lives, courtesy of life itself grrrr but then again, so have I:)

i did do that but it was always short term lol.. but i dont think anything i have predicted for myself has come true.. mostly because of health but i still have a few goals im gonna try to hit lol.. but yeah its weird how what we thought we would have been like now didnt happen and with both of us its probably because we didnt stay around people back then that would have led us there.. ie your jail birds lol