How has your life been different than what you’d imagined?

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   Vishaaaposted 14 years ago

   How has your life been different than what you’d imagined?

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   PETER LUMETTAposted 14 years ago

   I don't think I ever imagined doing what I do except in the present. I've thought of fantasies but never really thought they were going to happen only that I wish they would happen.

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   www.lookseenowposted 14 years ago

   66 years ago when I was 13 I remember walking in town with my leather jacket.  If you wear a leather jacket—wow—you be something!
   
   Passing by the store windows I’d admire my reflection:
   
        “How about that leather jacket?”
   
   Now what?  Do I miss it?  Do I label it the good old days?  I never thought I would get old.  My elder peers would say emphatically:  don’t get old!”
   
   As if I can prevent it, but no—now I’m saying that to others.  It wasn’t until I’m 29 that I remembered my Grand Creator in the days of my still young manhood.  That was before now—the calamitous days—the years that have arrived when you will hear me say:
   
        “I have no delight in them.”  (Ecclesiastes 12:1)

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   Brinafr3shposted 14 years ago

   I've imagined owning my own home by now, but I don't as of yet.

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   catsong54posted 14 years ago

   I never thought I'd be living in the mountains by myself and I sure didn't think I'd live in this state!

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   stuff4youposted 14 years ago

   Ask yourself these questions if to help yourself determine whether you're living the life that you want or not.   Do I like my job?  Is everything I do just a means to an end?  Do I really enjoy being married to my spouse? (this one might be harder... read more

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   onegoodwomanposted 14 years ago

   Your question is far more intense and provocative than it first appears.  I have sat at the keepboard for several minutes trying to answer it.  Three times, I have erased and attempted a new though!
   
   Even as a young girl, I wanted to be a wife, a mother, to travel, to cook and to  write.  All of these things I have done........but I was SO unprepared for the timing of the details.  Life doesn't always adhere to schedules and good timing. 
   
   My Grandmother once told me, that it was a terrible thing to have your children live  far away from you.  At the time, I thought her to be a sentimental old lady...........I never expected to feel what she felt~~ and now, I do.
   
   I expected to have far more control over the changes.

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   sophia jiaposted 14 years ago

   there is a saying that you never know taste of the next chocolate in box. the chocolate just like our life, only you have experienced it, or else we cannot have a deeply feelings and impression for it. so, almost everyday life of mine is rather different from my expect and imagination.

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   mommyneal6posted 14 years ago

   My life is what I thought it was going to be as a big picture, but it's the minor details that are very different. I expected to be done with college and doing my career now instead of having 4 kids and working on it now. I never imangined myself marring the man I did or actually having that many kids. It's not a bad change just was a little unexpected.

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    FranYoposted 14 years ago

    If "imagined" means, How is my life is different than what I "expected", well NO! 
    My life turned out much richer and more full of love than I thought I would ever have for my future.  As a lose-cannon foster kid, I really didn't think I'd have so much of everything:  joy, love, financial stability, good marriage, happy children, world travels....
    
    BUT, as that foster kid once did a whole lotta dreaming,
    If "imagined" means, How is my life is different than what I "dreamed", well, YES!
    I've had travels all over the world and know how fortunate I am to be living a "dreamed" of life.  I feel very fortunate!

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    duffsmomposted 14 years ago

    I never thought I would have children and I had two--the greatest pleasure of my life.  And I think I am surprised I lived this long.  My dad as 49 when he died, and my mom 53--so I outlived them my by a few years.

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