Life Planning & Decision Making

This is the class I signed up for recently to cover my credits

since I had to drop my foods class for work.

Today was the 1st time I've gone to it and actually, I kind of enjoyed it.

The class is about how and why people make the decisions they do,

how their circumstances effect their decisions and so on.

Today we did a little experiment (if you wanna call it that) where my professor told us to

completely relax and close our eyes.

So I slouched in my chair and put my head down on my desk.

She took us on a "journey" to 10 years in the future.

She told us to just let our minds go where they go and try our best to picture what comes to mind.

She told us to picture waking up. What did we see, who did we see, what time we woke up, etc.

She then led us throughout our day letting us make the path and let our imagination take control.

Well, our practical imagination.

After she led us through our day, she told us to come back and open our eyes.

It was so funny how my mind worked.

Where did I see myself in 10 years? What was I doing? Who was I with?

Of course people think about their future all the time, but it was like I saw it perfectly.

My life was simple, and I was perfectly content with the simplicity.

That kind of surprised me a little.

Not that I expect to be some rich, famous person or anything. I just have always wanted to travel and dream of having money. Good money.

In my mind, the house wasn't very big. I didn't "look" rich.

I pictured myself married, with a little girl

 (which I thought weird because I've always had a feeling that I would have a boy first)

and I was pregnant. And of course... I had a dog.

The things I did throughout the day were simple and nothing huge but I was so content.

Okay, this probably sounds really strange. But it was interesting to see where you pictured yourself.

Some people shared what they'd imagined, and were surprised with what their mind envisioned.

The activity gave me a strange sense of peace.

People strive so much to be the best, the strongest, the richest, and the most famous.

Those are really great ambitions, but people can be happy without those things.

The people who are the most unhappy are the ones who never feel like they have enough.

They're never satisfied and always hungry for more, more, more, more, and more...

It's sad. We are so blessed, so loved, so lucky, and we have endless opportunities.

Yet our generation seems to be the biggest complainers, the most ungrateful.

I used this picture because I feel like it shows the calmness of space.

Yet we can conceive the world and our lives as seriously hectic. But it doesn't need to be that way.

I just felt the need to write about what I felt today.

So I did.