Having goals to work towards is a good thing, and something I’d been struggling with recently.
I’ve accomplished most of my major goals.
Graduated from college.
Bought a house.
Supported myself financially.
My next goal after those has been to find someone, get married, and after 4 or 5 years start seriously thinking about having a kid or kids and becoming a stay at home mom.
Unfortunately accomplishing this goal depends on someone other than just myself, which I’ve found makes it pretty darn hard to persue.
Happily though I finally figured out a way I can achieve the core of that goal – being a stay at home mom. If I work here for 25-30 years and retire at 50-55, I can become a foster mom and/or adopt a child. I’ll be a bit old, but with life spans getting longer, if I take care of my health I figure I might make it to 100.
If I happen to meet someone along they way, that’s a bonus and I’ll be open to it. But now I have a new goal that I can accomplish on my own and don’t need to look actively for someone to share my life with. So my sub-goal is to move to Davis to make it easier to get to work for the next 25 or so years.
