by Trisha Navarro

Created on: November 12, 2009   Last Updated: November 14, 2009

Has anyone ever thought about the future? The question is really who hasn't thought about the future? So many of us have thought about what our future lives would be like. Especially when we were younger and growing up and saying that we wanted to be firefighters and doctors. Who we'd like to marry and how many children we would like to have and how big our house would be with how many rooms. So, yes I'm sure at some point in everyone's life, we have thought about the future.

When I was younger I wanted to be a doctor and I wanted to have twenty children. Seriously, I wanted a big family, there was no specific man at the time I was interested in marrying and the thought of having a big family, was something I loved and I just loved children in general. I wanted a huge house as well and I wanted to have fifty bedrooms. I needed room for each of my twenty children.

Now though, my future dreams have changed and I am now in my future from my child hood. I am married, I have no specific career yet, and I have no children. So I still have some goals to reach as would anyone. I would think that things change from what our outlook would be as we had them when we were children for our future. Some of us may have still had those future dreams and they actually came true and then other times we our future dreams change.

This is how my future dreams has changed and well, I'm not wanting the same thing. I no longer want to be a doctor, so that is not my career path right now. My career path I would love to help animals possibly. I love animals and I'm always bringing in homeless animals every chance I get. So, I would say that now my career goal is to become a veterinarian. I also want to carry on a second career, because there is something else that I have a passion for. I still love children and I would like to work with them as well. At first I thought of maybe becoming a teacher, but I think I would rather be more interested in helping troubled kids and teenagers. Those that have been abused. This is something that has stuck with me quite awhile. I want to become a Child Psychiatrist.

Then of course there is the fact that I wanted to have children and I have definitely changed my mind about the amount of children that I want. I just think that taking care of twenty children would just be too hectic for my husband and I. So we have decided to have two, we want a girl and a boy. We really would like to have a girl, because my husband already has two boys. Then we thought that if we pop up with more boys we would try for a girl one more time and then if we still have a boy, we'd be okay with just having three kids and thats the cut off.

Then finally about the house. I'd rather not have a big house anymore, but at least a really nice house. With only five rooms. I think having a house with fifty rooms and that is huge I would not be able to keep my house very clean. My mom had stated that when I was young, she was like "well, you better hire a maid, because there would be no way that you would be able to keep up with all those rooms" and yet she was right. It would be nice to have a one story house, with a fireplace and a huge kitchen. That is something that I have always wanted.

Then one day, I plan on building my own house on some property out in the country. I would love to live in the country and have a couple of horses.

So that's how I am planning my future and how it would look. Then when I am ready to retire, then I want to be all set and traveling throughout the world, going to places I have never been with my husband.

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