For the past two weeks

In my Educational Policies class we have been talking about our career trajectory's.  Such as what we plan on doing in reality with our lives and careers compared to what we want to do in our alter ego's meaning if we had no financial issues or obligations.  Mine looked like this:

Reality

- Graduate UIC

-Sign a contract with CPS OR teach in Spain for one year

-Keep teaching OR come back to Chicago

-Grad school AND teach

-Graduate grad school/keep teaching

-Get married

-Teach/establish marriage

-Have a baby or two

-Teach/be a mom

Alter ego

-Graduate UIC

-Teach in Spain for a year

-Move to New York and teach there for a year or two

-Come back to Chicago grad school/teach 

-Open a bakery/coffee shop

-Get married/establish selves

-Run bakery

-Have a baby or two

-Be a mom/work

So both are a little different but have similarities.  Graduating UIC is a major thing that I want to accomplish first and I would really like to teach in Spain for a year.  To live there would be so amazing, and I'd have a chance to speak Spanish and experience so much culture.  But no matter what I want to live in a big city.  I am a city girl and I can't be anywhere else so whether it's Chicago or New York I want to be in that loud, busy, cultural environment.  Another huge and probably the most important ending in my trajectory is to be married and be a mom.  Of course it can be in a long long long while, trust me I am in NO rush!  But I've always had this thought that I knew I'd be the happiest and accomplish what I wanted to when I became a wife and mother.  I guess it's because aside from it's ups and down's I've idolized my parents marriage.  Married for 27 years and they're more in love than they were in 82'.  And I've been so fortunate to have a good childhood and raised well by my parents.  I want to be able to do the same for my very far future children, and I want to pass down traditions and things that I experienced to them.  

Through all of this I realized that it is a good thing to have goals and to know what I want to try and succeed for when I get older. However, right now presently I think the best thing for me to do is take it day by day.  And as I get older all I can do is play the cards that fate will deal me, and just ride the wave and let things happen.  If things were meant to be a certain way it'll happen.