Has your life turned out the way you thought it would?

Question

Probably best answered by those over 35 or 40. I don't think you have to have gotten everything you were trying to get every step of the way. Can you look around yourself now and say, "yeah, this is pretty much what I wanted to be doing right now."?

Answer 1

Every path I have taken was wrong until I trusted God hes never failed me. Sometimes I have wondered why God never answered certain prayers. Some I know now he knew better than I did. Have you ever heard the song some of Gods greatest gifts are "unanswered prayers"? I'm glad now he didnt answer a prayer about a guy who I wanted to marry years ago.

I know now that guy is not somebody I would not want to be with today. I think I've wasted alot of my life going the wrong way and when I think Ive got it all figured out the bottom drops out beneath me. Have you ever been there? In the middle of your life and suddenly nothing is the same and everything has changed?

I know this much I'm wear I want to be as long as God still cares for me.

Answer 2

Boy, what a loaded question!

I have never been a person who set goals and worked to see them come true; I have mostly been content to ride the wave of life and go wherever it takes me. This makes your question harder to answer.

The only thing I remember wanting for my future, as a kid, was a big family. I wanted to have seven or eight children, a big house and a husband - as a kid, you just assume that the spouse you'll eventually have will love you no matter what - and later on, I wanted to be a grandmother surrounded by throngs of laughing and happy children.

In reality, I only had the two kids, and while they're the most amazing people I've ever known, there are still only two of them. I'm old enough now that there will be no more. And those two amazing kids are in no hurry whatsoever to make me a grandmother. They're getting old enough now, too, that if they ever do get around to that, there will likely be only a couple of grandbabies each for me. So that part of how I envisioned my life did not turn out as I'd envisioned.

It has been a long, circuitous route to where I am now, just like for everyone else, but I don't think I could be much happier than I am at this moment. Doesn't really answer your question though, does it. Sigh.

Answer 3

Not at all. I went to school to become a lawyer, and assumed I'd have the good life from then on. Then I married someone else who was also studying law, but he wouldn't let me join another firm, because he wanted us to go into practice together. Then he failed the bar over and over, and never became one in the 4 years we were married. I did work as a lawyer, but for the state, which pays terribly in our state. It was a political job, so when the administration changed, I was out. I have epilepsy, and found that I can't work the long hours lawyers are expected to work, so for the last 10 years I've been working at non-legal jobs, everything from loading airplanes at FedEx to grading state student tests. If I'd known then what I know now, I'd have found something that may not have had the potential to pay as much, but which I could stick with and be happy with.

Answer 4

To tell you the truth, No! My life has not turned out the way I thought it would nor do I expect it to because that would make me God!
Nobody 's life is ever going to turn out like they expect! That's not the way anyone will ever live their life. We may live a large part of our lives being happy that things are going so well but evidently something will come along to bring unhappiness whatever form that might take.
I would never want to know how everything would turn out in my life because it would take all the fun out of living or if I knew something bad was going to happen i wouldn't be able to prevent it and that would be scary!
No, I prefer right now in my life to take the good with the bad and let it go at that.

Answer 5

Honestly, my life turned out better than I ever imagined it would. I never even believed I would live past 35, but here I am. I made bad grades in school and was the dumb blond. No one figured I would go to college, but here I am--a Master's degree later, working on my PhD. I went from relationship to relationship, drinking and partying my 20's away. My parents told me,"You will never find a decent husband." Yet, here I am, two husbands later, in the happiest relationship I have ever had in my life. Tomorrow, I move into the home of my dreams, and the day after, I will be sweating, polishing the wood floors in my shorts and a tee-shirt, and I will say, "Yep, here I am--right where I always wanted to be!"

Answer 6

To be totally honest I would have to say yes. My husband and I just celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary, I have two beautiful children that I have the pleasure of raising and not having to send to daycare and a home of our own, with 4 dogs, fish and a turtle to boot. I feel very blessed that my life has turned out how I had thought it would.

Answer 7

not even remotely. I thought I would have a good job, be married and have at least one child by now. 0 for three. But you have to roll with the punches and live your life the best you know how. That's all I know how to do.

Answer 8

You're going to have to ask me when I'm on my death-bed; to early to tell.
Eventhough your life may seem off-track right now, or that's it terrible and not turning out the right way, fate could just be conditioning you for something really amazing, or preparing you for something big that you'll be able to handle.

Answer 9

In areas better and in some areas worse. Life is a learning experience so I guess that is just life isn't it. Many area's that did not turn out well I could not have controlled them, they had nothing to do with the effort that I put in. :-)