Life is What Happens: A Look Back at My Non-Existent 2025 Vision

Daily writing prompt

Is your life today what you pictured a year ago?

This is one of those WordPress prompts that I don’t mind revisiting!

The truth is, I didn’t have much of a vision for 2025 at this time last year. I knew some things were going to happen, but I didn’t expect any drastic changes in life as I know it.

The Unexpected Wins

Kid 1 graduated from high school, as expected. What I wasn’t prepared for was him getting a damn-near full-ride to the University of Wisconsin. To make it even sweeter, he got the scholarship notification in his 18th birthday. Thank you Bucky the Badger for showing both his X1 and I up for a birthday present. I was so excited, I smiled for 3 straight days.

Plugging Along and Hitting the ‘Tween Years

Kid 2 is plugging along nicely as well. Can you believe he’s in 5th grade?! He’s really taken to school much better in the last two years- and I couldn’t be more proud of him. He’s really hitting the ‘tween years where he wants to be a teenager, but he doesn’t want to get older at the same time.

The Art of Moving Slowly

As for me, I’m still living and working in the same places. Things with Veronica and me have never been better. At this time last year, things had cooled off a bit. That’s not the case this time around. I didn’t know what expect from her at this time last year; so I can’t say if the relationship is where I envisioned it being 12 months ago. We are still proceeding a very, very casually. That’s my polite way of saying that this is the slowest moving relationship I’ve ever been in.

But maybe that’s the way it’s supposed to be.

Extra Innings

I attended more baseball games this year than I had in the pervious 3 years combined. Last year was also the most attended season I’ve had since The Old Man had his partial season ticket package. I saw games in 2 new stadiums and attended a tour in another new park. None of them are places I originally intended to visit this last season.

Looking Toward the Horizon

Mother is still hanging in there, healthwise. I have to be honest. At this time of last year, I didn’t know if she would still be with us. In the meanwhile, Phred is still Phred, and Guillaume is still Guillaume. I do, however hear that Guillaume is looking at retiring in the next year or so. I know that seeing both of our grandfathers and the old man pass at relatively early ages has rattled him a bit. More than he’ll admit. My God, I’ve officially gotten to the age where some of my contemporaries are talking about retirement.

John Lennon said it best when he sang “life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”. The only problem with that attitude is if you don’t have any plans, life will make them for you. I think that you have to have a general idea of where you want to go in life, but be willing to adapt and change.

I really have no idea what to expect from the next 12 months. I don’t even have much of an idea as to what I want to happen. I wasn’t originally planning on doing it, but I think I’m going to create another one of my annual “blueprint for the new year” posts.

I can’t shake the feeling that there is some major new development is going to take place in my life in the next 12 months. I’m sure I probably thought the same thing last year, but was afraid to express it. Most likely it probably has to do with mother’s health. But I feel like there’s a change on the horizon for me.

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