So, my birthday is less than a month away on the 7th of June. I'll be 20.

And I was thinking... When I was a little kid I imagined myself living in the city in an apartment and studying to be a doctor by the time I was 20.

But how it's actually turned out is really different. I'm still living at home in a pretty rural area and instead of studying to be a doctor, I'm studying to be an archaeologist and writer.

I also figured I'd be a party girl have lots of friends. Dear, how wrong I was!

Did you ever imagine what your life would be like when you got older? And how different is your imaginary version versus reality?

When I used to play house I was always 20. For some reason I thought that was the coolest age. I thought by that age you'd be totally awesome, have lots of money, and not a care in the world. And spend a lot of time at beaches. I'm turning 19 this year and I have realized that I was probably wrong. lol. ;_;

even though im only 14 yes when i was like 10 i thought by now I'd be at party's every night, have a boyfriend and have really cool clothes i was so wrong at that age i wanted to be and artist, now i was to be a medical researcher just wondering how much will change by the time im 20 XD

Haha, I just had these same thoughts on the 6th, because I turned 20. I did think it'd be different. I thought I would've already moved out of the country and such. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be happening anytime soon.

lol every kid thinks in the abstract and goes above and beyond when looking at the future.

I thought i would be a doctor. I would be happy and on my way to having a family. I'm 18 and none of that is going to be happening any time soon.

I'm 14 years old right now and I hope to be in college when I'm 20 years old.

I plan on graduating high school, taking the regular Summer off, then trying to get in a college in Autumn. My dream job would be an archaeologist, so I'd probably want to be that by the time I'm 26 years old or so. :)

funny, but i think i'm one of the rare people who didn't imagine anything for the future :P

the only thing i wanted was a life without my father, which i got 2 years ago

now, i just make plans/ides along the way

I know how you feel. I'll be 21 in less than two months, and when I was younger, I always thought I would be a serious relationship and serving in the Navy. I'm doing neither. Now I'm just living my life the way the cards play out

I thought I'd be married with kids at age 20, be an artist and a writer and be totally the coolest person ever. I'm 23 now, am not married, don't have kids and I'm not an artist or a writer. In fact, I'm a cashier XD I do write as a hobby, though. But I thought I'd be published and famous lol. And 20 is so not old! 23 is old though :P

I always thought I'd be in some super-cool college with loads of friends. Now with my current grades that doesn't look like it's going to happen. I have the best of friends now though- high school is better than I imagined, but college will probably be more the opposite.

I'd like to see my dream come true. XD

And I don't think 20 is old. I always calculate it like this: I wanna live until I get 100 years old. So 100 years = 100%. By my calculator you've lived only 20 percent of your life. XD Though it's stupid calculator.

I was going to be an Olympic eventing(type of horseback riding, lot's of running fast and jumping huge things) rider. I was going to have a giant farm with mister perfect by my side and train the best horses in the world. All by say 25 or so.

I'm 29 now. Destroyed my knees before I was even out of high school so I can't even jump horses anymore. Still very single. On the plus side I do have a tiny farm, two trail horses and do a bit of horse training on the side of my "real" job. So was shooting for the sky and landed in reality but at least it's a nice chunk of reality.

My life is nothing at all how I planned it when I was young. My best friend and I used to dream about what was to come and make all these plans. We thought that by the time we were 20 years old, that we would either be living in an RV and making our way place to place like hippies, (lol), or that we would be biker babes and get to wear leather and ride around on the back of a Harley all day.

Then reality crashed in and here we are. :P

I am married with a beautiful lil girl and she is engaged with 2 kids. My how things change. :)

Heh. I had a plan, and I deterred slightly and my life changed forever. I turned 25 in January, and thought that by now I would be working on my masters in microbiology and working in a laboratory with "hot" diseases.

Senior year of high school I decided I wanted to study genetic predisposition for mental illness, so decided on bio-psychology. Took a semester off... that lasted until Spring semester 2009. D: In school now, and life is so different! Working full time so I cannot do a full load and I am in classes with people that cannot go out drinking with me! :( Oh, and now I think I want to minor in philosophy.

I am thankful for what I have though. Every experience has made me the awesome person I am now. :D

I oddly only ever thought of what profession I'd go into in the future when I was young, I still can't imagine life more than a year in advance. I think it's a built in shield from making me depressed that my life didn't turn out how I wanted. lol. But everything I wanted to be as a child, I know I will never become, like a vet, I can NOT put down animals. I love them tooooo much. 21 now and what will I be going for, programmer and psychology, never EVER would have guessed either of those would be in my future.