3. 10 years from now

...WOAH! A decade from now- that seems so far away, but here I am at 21 years old ... It's funny how fast life moves. In ten years from now I'd like to be ALIVE. lol... I want to be able to have a job that pays me enough so my parents don't have to work and I can take care of them the way they've taken care of me my whole life. Matter of fact I want to be the CEO of my own business venture. I want to be content.. not happy. I've been happy before. Happy comes and goes- CONTENTMENT lasts. I wanna be able to look back at defining moments in my life that made me who I am. I wanna look back and finally understand why I had to go through all that shit. I wanna be able to to say that " I did it." I triumphed despite all the people rooting for me to fail, and I wanna celebrate with the people cheering from me to succeed. I wanna have a family. I want kids. I see myself living in North Cali- San Jose/Oakland/ or Sausalito. I wanna have done something that had impacted someone's life in a very positive way. I see myself OLDER. WISER...hell just this past 2 months have forced me to make some changes. I feel like I can't be nice to everyone anymore. I feel like I have to be in 'BOSS mode' every time I'm out cause people don't treat you with respect unless you demand it. I tried being nice and people use you as a doormat so I'm turning the 'BOSS mode' on! I can't be the same as I was before because life isn't all fun and games. I fear loosing the very essence that makes me, ME. I feel like a large part of my innocence is gone now that I've been betrayed by a close friend... It just forced me to realize that I can't be in 'relaxed and fun' mode all the time... but every experience is there to make us stronger and wiser.
I see myself having most of the same friends. Even though we won't all be in the same city, we'll still be really great friends. I think I'll still be living by the same code I live by now," you can't trust just any body...only a special few. I see myself making a difference in society. Naturally, I like to fix things. I can't just see something broken and walk away. I feel like a lot of things in society are broken and it's my responsibility to help fix them. For instance- In ten years time, I see myself having a ten-story book club for kids. Kids these days don't read books. I wanna help inspire them to read in a fun setting... People always told me since I was young that they see "big things in my future" .. idk how they "saw" these things cause they AIN'T Psychic! lol... but I think they recognized that I am goal oriented and that I care about what direction my life takes.... I realize that life is short and I have to make the most of it. One person that I admire is Benjamin Franklin. I always say that I wish I can lead a life similar to his. He managed to accomplish things in his ONE lifetime that ten people COMBINED wouldn't accomplish in their lifetime! He established the Fire Dept. Police Dept. Library, Post Office- He invented the Cast Iron stove, he was one of the original founders, he was PRESIDENT...he did it all. He had his faults ( known womanizer) - BUT he really used the time he had on this earth wisely. If anything I wanna be able to look back ten years from now and say," With the help of God I have been able to accomplish everything that I set out to do."