Friday Five...
Jan. 17th, 2025 01:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chicatingTen years ago, what did you think you would be doing now?
Can I tell you how much "Not this," Wildest *hope* maybe studying writing, journalism, or policy at Berkeley or somewhere, but that was only a dream born of wanting to live closer to my friends, not about the book learning. Maybe I might have had a book come out or met someone to date.Not yet! she says, like a crazed optimist that she's not. But I haven't given up yet, because dig the exclamation point(rueful smile)
2. Where do you think you will be five years from now?
Part of me has been expecting to die suddenly for about the last ten years(There's not a HUGE organic basis for this, but a great many people with my diagnosis do tend to...pop a clot and not wake up one day. Even if I'm stronger than I look and all.(I'd pretty much have to be, too.) I think, though, that it's mostly that a way forward is hard to imagine.
3. Do you live life one day at a time or look to the future?
I think I'm a planner that had to shift to day-to-day thinking because there are no plans for women like me.
4. Do you wish you could go back in time and undo something in your life?
Yeah, but I can't agree on which thread to pull. I often wish I'd scraped up the $50 for that Hillary event that a FOF invited me to, but I was super-broke. On the other hand, that was a moment that shifted me left, so that feels like wishing my activism undone, but...
5. If you could send a message back in time and give a younger version of yourself some advice, what would it be?
"Mom will get over it if you quit college. Nobody else will EVER care that you graduated, ever."
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Can I tell you how much "Not this," Wildest *hope* maybe studying writing, journalism, or policy at Berkeley or somewhere, but that was only a dream born of wanting to live closer to my friends, not about the book learning. Maybe I might have had a book come out or met someone to date.Not yet! she says, like a crazed optimist that she's not. But I haven't given up yet, because dig the exclamation point(rueful smile)
2. Where do you think you will be five years from now?
Part of me has been expecting to die suddenly for about the last ten years(There's not a HUGE organic basis for this, but a great many people with my diagnosis do tend to...pop a clot and not wake up one day. Even if I'm stronger than I look and all.(I'd pretty much have to be, too.) I think, though, that it's mostly that a way forward is hard to imagine.
3. Do you live life one day at a time or look to the future?
I think I'm a planner that had to shift to day-to-day thinking because there are no plans for women like me.
4. Do you wish you could go back in time and undo something in your life?
Yeah, but I can't agree on which thread to pull. I often wish I'd scraped up the $50 for that Hillary event that a FOF invited me to, but I was super-broke. On the other hand, that was a moment that shifted me left, so that feels like wishing my activism undone, but...
5. If you could send a message back in time and give a younger version of yourself some advice, what would it be?
"Mom will get over it if you quit college. Nobody else will EVER care that you graduated, ever."
Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If your journal is private or friends-only, you can post your full answers in the comments below.
