For example, what do you hope to have accomplished? How big (or small) is your family? Do you have new hobbies? Where are you working?
The way my college career is moving, I could have a ph.d in neuroscience and be busy making ground breaking discoveries of the brain. I dream I'll become a professional soccer player, yet I'm ever afraid that I began too late and have been hopelessly disadvantaged by the place I live in and the need to make money to support myself. One day, I'll be the most amazing guitarist because I can convey emotions like no other has before. I have found that instead of being extremely skilled, I am truly... hopelessly average. Would you believe it when I tell you I don't see myself in 25 years.
In twenty five years time I will be over half a decade old. Woah. I think my family will shrink, with the boys going off and starting their own lives proper... but it will grow as we gain grandkids, nieces, nephews, sons and daughters in law. I've been brought up with three generations living in one house, and am doing that right now in fact, so every holiday has been a matter of half a dozen aunts and uncles, a dozen or more cousins and the occasional dog or baby; this is something I want to continue and hopefully in 25 years time we will be better placed to do so. Illness can be hard to predict, we don't know what will happen to my wife or I. Maybe she'll get better, maybe she'll get worse, maybe I will become unwell... we've talked about growing old and grey together but each new thing in our lives makes that dream seem less and less of a reality. Maybe by 2050 we'll be past all the change in our lives and things will be stable... or maybe that's when the real adventure will begin.
In twenty five years time I will be over half a decade old. Woah.
that makes zero sense.
I will be 45 in 25 years. Hopefully I'll be working in a successful, steady job in the accounting or personal finance industry. Married to my girlfriend of 3 years now and raising a family of my own. Pursing my passions of cars, travel, and golf. I also would like to be helping people in my community in whatever way I can.
In 25 years I will 71 years old. I'm not sure I'll make it that far but if I do I hope I am happily and healthily retired. Hopefully I'll be a mischevious old crumudgeon who bothers people with a twinkle in my eye, not a bitter old bastard who orders people off my lawn. At this point, I feel like I could go wither way.
Working as an engineer, with good pay and maybe a family to take care of. And I hope I have released at least 6 more albums by then :)
I hope to have a doctorate in medical bacteriology or similar field and doing research at a university. Optimally, I would also teach classes on microbiology/molecular biology. In addition, I would like to have a cozy suburban home with a wife and at least one child. By then, I also would have liked to spend time studying in Germany for a bit; I think I am close to fluent and would like to see that be put to the ultimate test possible.
I hope that I'm out of college and starting to pursue anyone of my dream jobs. I would love to go into physics, technology, music (art really), and especially any combination of them. Perhaps I might find some one to love, but I doubt it. I also hope to be either in my hometown or somewhere far away; I can never decide which.
Idealistically I will be doing fieldwork in endangered languages, cataloging them before their extinction so cultural and linguistic heritage isn't lost to globalization. That's the idea with a Linguistics degree, but it would take a lot of effort and luck. Either that or doing diplomatic work, anything but staying in the country. Realistically if I stay on the path with Linguistics I will be lucky to land an adjunct professorship at a university. I'll most likely change paths to something more profitable, or do something completely unrelated to my field where I have connections. Especially with decreases in scientific funding this is seeming more likely everyday.