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Door Four
Today is the 4th anniversary of me being on TK. TK just told me that.
What was going on in your life four years ago?
I was about to graduate from grad school. I was a bridesmaid. I was anticipating working full time in my new career. I had never lived with a man before. Or posted on a message board. Or met anyone IRL through the internet. I had just learned that my parents were full of unimaginable drama. Later this month, four years ago, H brought up marriage in the "soon" sense.
What was going on in your life four years ago?
I was about to graduate from grad school. I was a bridesmaid. I was anticipating working full time in my new career. I had never lived with a man before. Or posted on a message board. Or met anyone IRL through the internet. I had just learned that my parents were full of unimaginable drama. Later this month, four years ago, H brought up marriage in the "soon" sense.
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Re: Door Four
So glad for the changes I've made!!
Oh, to be young and carefree again...
Four years ago I was in a miserable relationship that I thought was normal. I lived in the old farmhouse apartment with Buddy and the ex. I was working in a different position at my employer and was getting burned out.
By the end of 2010, the ex left, I was still in the apartment and still had the same job. It's kind of sad how bad it was four years ago BUT three years ago was so much better.
Anyone else think of their life like that?
Still here and still fabulous!
My first 5 years out of college I was teaching elementary school then in grad school. 2010 was the first year my life wasn't based around a school calendar (Well since I started school in 1980 whatever).
Four years ago I was 22 and still living in South Dakota after graduating college in spring 2009. I was working two part time jobs ... one in retail and the second as a radio announcer and news writer for a local station. I was still dating my ex and only a couple of months away from discovering that he had been cheating on me with our then roommate. Luckily later that year I left his stupid ugly ass and moved back to Atlanta, got my first full-time salaried job and started to strike it out on my own again.
There are a lot of things I would go back and change or do differently but in many ways they led me to where I am now and I wouldn't change me or the life I have right now for anything.
I was in grad school (which basically means I had no life, whatsoever). I went to lab, did experiments, and generally hated my life. I also wrote my thesis. It was awesome, apparently, but my boss didn't agree (all my other committee members did!)
I ALSO MOVED IN WITH BF! And we got stuck in a hotel for 2 days because of the Blizzard of 2010. With a UHaul. It was awesome.
That's about it. I think we also went to Gettysburg, but that was not on facebook. I was apparently not good at facebooking in 2010.
Four years ago was March 2010 (derrrr, but I was seriously having trouble figuring out what I was doing with just, "I was 20" in my head).
I was living in a dorm for the first time ever with a seriously obnoxious roommate, but still loving every moment of it because I was out of the house! And that was a good thing, because both of my brothers were living at home and using at the time, so they were not in the best place, and neither were my parents while trying to deal with that.
I was studying Psychology and was not really sure what direction to take afterward. I figured I could always do the grad school thing and become a counselor, but my heart wasn't totally in that, so I experimented with a lot of English and History classes to expand my horizons. I wasn't seriously considering nursing yet because I didn't think I could handle the pre-reqs.
Ex-BF and I were super-grande in love, and this was around the point where I became my most BSC about our relationship. We had broken up and gotten back together about a year before, and I was like, "OMG, we've been back together for almost a year and this is GREAT! We should get MARRIED someday!"
I don't think I would have been surprised about nursing school. I wouldn't have been happy AT ALL that I was living with my mom through it, but it would have made sense to me to do that through school. I would have been shocked and horrified to find out that C and I were no longer together. It was a really good time in our relationship, and we had a great thing going while we were in school. We ended up growing into different goals and wanting different things out of life and each other that we just couldn't meet, but there was no way I could have known that would happen back then.
Even though I don't know where I'll be four years from now, I'm glad this is where I wound up. So now I'm excited to find out what will happen in my life by 2018!