where you are now, could you picture it when you were my age ('m 16)? i was giving a class assignment to describe what and where i think i'll be in 50 years and i can't even fathom anything. i know what i want to be but i can't picture that in 50 years. so i want to know if you ever felt that way? like you couldn't even imagine what it would be like? i have a good imagination so usualy i can picture this but i can't.
2007-05-14 12:01:23 · 8 answers · asked by Love Lust Life 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
At 16:
I did not know the job I have now existed.
The place where I currently live was not built yet.
The hobbies I have now had not been invented yet.
And many of the mistakes I made in left I did not ever think I'd I'd make.
Their is no way to accurately predict out 50 years, so just fantasize and tell a good story.
And remember 50 years ago:
No computers or internet
No heavy metal music,
Very little birth control
No aids.
Airplanes were rare.
Their was only one Disney theme park.
2007-05-14 12:13:24 · answer #1 · answered by Vultureman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was asking the same questions 54 years ago. Time goes so fast. As you get older time goes faster,reason is that as you get older the more a ware of time you become. That was discussed in my Sociology class. I used to be a Stock car driver from 1960 Thur 1990. I have been married, 2 children, and now a grandfather. I constantly think to myself," Where did all that time go?" Enjoy life, do not waste it on drugs or really foolish things. You only get 1 chance in life, so give it all the best you can.
2007-05-14 12:11:43 · answer #2 · answered by Tanker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't believe man would walk on the moon, but it happened.
I'm 57 years of age and the future is as much a mystery now as it was when I was 16. I am now at least 20 years "younger" physically and mentally than my father was at my age.
I think that what your teacher is doing is trying to get you to think about what you "realistically" would like life for yourself to be at the age of 50. What goals and ambitions you have?
Dream hugely. Interdimensional travel? Travel at the speed of thought? What could be? Anything! Go for it!
The world is yours, create. I know 16-year-olds can do that. My wife and I have raised three to past that age.
Suggestion: be sure and keep a copy of this project.
2007-05-14 12:16:06 · answer #3 · answered by CJohn317 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am 84 years old! When I was a boy Lindburgh flew the Atlantic solo from New York to Paris. I never thought that I would see a jet plane; I never thought that I would see men on the moon; i never thought that I would see, electric typewriters;computers,washing machines'television; DVDs; Cd's; movies in color; air conditioners;microwaves;frozen vegetables and meats and dinners; two way mirrors; plastic utensil's that matter almost everything in plastic; being able to pick up the phone and talk with my Grandchild in New Zealand;recording machines; polyester;operations that replace hearts, lungs, pacemakers, teeth implants. etc etc The list is endless. What is it going to be 50 years from now? I would love to come back for one day and see.if there is anything to see. We also developed the means to destroy the world; it's called the Atom Bomb.
2007-05-14 12:31:28 · answer #4 · answered by Alfie333 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I sure felt like that at 16. I thought I wanted to be a stewardess and got too fat.
Then as I got toward graduation a cousin of my grandmother got me into a nurses aide class at a hospital she volunteered at and I loved it.
I still have no idea what I would have done if she hadn't done that for me. She took me in and let me live with her, took me on vacation with her, took me to school and work. Just like she was my own grandmother.
Everyone has an angel in their life she was mine and my mentor, too.
After the next 10 years went by I was married and had 2 children and that is probably close to what I had visioned myself doing.
Go to school and learn something, even if you don't know if you would like to do that because anything you learn will eventually help you in the future. Education is never a wrong step to take.
2007-05-14 12:15:30 · answer #5 · answered by Tigger 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A fair question. I'm almost seventy, and when I was sixteen, Televisions were just coming into the home, in black and white. There were no cell phones, microwaves, or computers. We used to laugh at the thought of space travel. A cartoon called Dick Tracey, had him using a wrist radio to communicate. When we watched Star Trek, they used communicators and phasers, sort of like cell phones and Tasers. For your project think of the weirdest, wildest ideas, that couldn't possibly ever be. By the time you're my age, they probably will be.
2007-05-14 12:09:41 · answer #6 · answered by Beau R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was 16 I had no idea what my life would be like at 20, much less 50. 16 seems like yesterday, but I just don't recall having any thoughts about anything beyond the very near future at that age.
2007-05-14 12:09:27 · answer #7 · answered by EvilWoman0913 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nope i figured that I would be on my way to some distant star by now or at least on Mars. No one told me it was going to be like this.......
2007-05-14 12:05:45 · answer #8 · answered by Daniel H 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋