Expectations

Sometimes, I hear my children talk about the future they have planned for themselves. One is looking forward to living abroad, preferably in a country like Egypt or Honolulu or Turkey. She's a sun lover and she really needs her daily portion of sun to enjoy life. She wants to live in a huge house, near the beach, with her own swimming pool (an indoor and an outdoor - how good it is to dream..). She will drive a BMW convertible and go out for dinner most of the time. If I ask her what kind of job she's going to have, she has no idea. She doesn't want to work. She won't have time, because she will be travelling most of the time.. Hmhmhm..

The other one wants to live in a very modern house, downtown New York or Sydney. She wants to be a famous designer or a teacher and will shop 'till she drops. She'll get married and have a bunch of children. Her sister won't. At least, that's what she claims. Men are stupid and children a nuisance. Do you think she forgot that she's a child herself when she said that?

I would really like to know how they will achieve their dreams. Miss One says she wants to spend a year abroad, to broaden her horizon, before she decides about the rest of her life. I won't stop her. I think that's a very good idea. I will encourage her to do so. It would be a good lesson in life. She could be an overseas student right?

Miss Two will probably follow her mother's footsteps, because she would like to work as an au pair. Not in the US. She prefers Australia. That's something different huh.

It's good to have dreams. It's good to think about the future. It would be good to think of how they will finance that future as well. But that's the least of their concern at this very moment..