The Future Is Today!

[TheeGoatPig]

I will tell you what. I didn't expect this at all. I bought my first computer back in June of 2001, but even as late as 2000 I never expected to own my own personal computer, let alone having gone through as many (not including upgrades) as I have.

When I turned 19 I didn't think I would ever get a girlfriend, and just a few short months later I had one and it was glorious. When it was all over I figured I could get another girlfriend easily enough. That one turned out for the worse and I haven't had one in 16 years.

I bought my first car, a black 1987 Nissan Pulsar with T-tops, in December of 1994. I figured that with how much that car cost me, I would only ever own cheap old cars. And then I bought a new 2000 Pontiac Firebird, followed by a new 2010 Chevy Camaro Super Sport.

I did not expect the future to end up the way it has. How has your future been as opposed to what you expected when you were living in the past?

 

[TxRad]

Back in High School and no we did not take notes on rocks, I was voted the least likely to live to see 21. I passed 3 times that a while back. Other than that, so far so good.

 

[topace]

Let me see: I'm working part-time for someone else still (as opposed to full-time for my own company) and no girlfriend, but three heartbreaks in a span of six years. Life could be a lot worse for me I guess...

 

[jomar]

I never expected to own a business, so there's that.

 

[Handley_Page]

Let me see: I'm working part-time for someone else still (as opposed to full-time for my own company) and no girlfriend, but three heartbreaks in a span of six years. Life could be a lot worse for me I guess...

Been there, done that, and I can promise you that life after cancer is a real nice bonus.

 

[sr71plt]

Been there, done that, and I can promise you that life after cancer is a real nice bonus.

Absolutely, having been (mis)diagnosed with fast-progressing leukemia twice--at age 11 and then 19, the next 45 years have, indeed, seemed a bonus.

 

[topace]

Been there, done that, and I can promise you that life after cancer is a real nice bonus.

My mother was cured from non Hodgkins lymphoma when I was younger. I say cured because she took no drugs or anything and it was gone - a miracle if you ask her and a proof of a change in diet (no processed meat and other stuff) for me.