The new year is a natural time to think about aging and who we are as compared to who we imagined we would be. A friend of mine had a droll observation about this process, writing in a recent email, "as I get older, I realize I'm much more shallow than I originally planned to be."
I think that makes a nice sentence frame:
As I get older, I realize I'm much more (or less) ___ than I planned to be (when I was ____ years old).
I invite you to fill in the blanks anonymously in the comments.
Bittersweet
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Eyal and I always knew that it would be difficult building a family from
two different countries. It is just now, however, that we have to really
put that ...
12 years ago
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more conventional/17
less accomplished/22
less certain/27
more satisfied
Interestingly I think I am very much as I imagined I would be. Slightly more academic and more conventional- but that doesn't feel permanent.
As I get older I realise I'm much more important that I planned to be when I was about 21
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