When I was a kid...

When I was a kid I thought I would be different from everybody else. I thought I'd be the one who went to the good university, who got the good job, and who would finally stick it to the jocks. I thought I'd be independent, not being the loser who lives at home well into their twenties.

It turns out that I was wrong. Not only did it take me five years to complete a two year degree (at the local community college) I don't have a job to show for it. Oh, and I still live at home (moving to England permanently Oct 2005 to live with my fiancée), fifty days before my twenty-fifth birthday.

I guess what I'm trying to get at is that when we're all children and still quite naïve about how the world really works we make all these plans about how perfect our future lives will be. To me it is upsetting that I never fulfilled these plans, largely in part because of severe depression and an (slight) inability to care for myself on my own (which may be linked to the aforementioned depression).

There is a lot to be said for the concept of "the plan"; any good plan can be adjusted for new timetables. I just hope that after my depression is licked I can get my original plan back on target. There is a lot in this world that I want to learn about.