Thinking about the future

I was just having a bit of a remisice and remembering when my friend and I used to sit in the back corner of our maths class and plan out our future lives, which is something I haven't thought about for a while, as I've been more concerned with the fact I can't see a future for myself whatever I do, it all seems bad sometimes. But that isn't true of course. I am so lucky to live in Australia where I have so much opportunity and to have solving family and loads of friends :) so many things I take for granted that other people don't have...

I really wan to go overseas and volunteer at the end of next year when I finish high school. It's something I've always wanted to do and seeing as I don't want to drink alcohol really at all in my life (not against it, everyone I know does, it's just I don't like what it does to people sometimes and I wouldn't want to do something I would regret. It also just does things to your body and I don't think it's necessary to have fun)and pretty much all my school pals will just be partying drunk for a while I thought I might go overseas to a developing country. It's not like my friends would even notice I wasn't there and making a difference in someone else's life would mean a lot more to me than a week meaningless partying.

Back to the future, my friend and I always used to think of exotic baby names to call our kids. She was a lot more abstract than me though, I think she wanted to call one simba (fan of the lion king I think) haha and she wanted seven kids

Mine from what I can remember was five or six kids, ideally a set of twins in there (which is possible as my dad is an identical twin as are his cousins and his other cousins are identical triplets which is super cool!) and their names were Callum, Tilly, Laila, Ashton and Taj. Not sure how keen on those I am now so I decided to think about it again.

In reality I think I'd like to have four kids. I don't want to only have one or two because I loved growing up in a family of four kids myself but I don't think I'd want to have any more than that because I would want to make sure I have enough time to spend with each kid which is getting harder with people working more and more now anyway. 

As for names, If I had three boys as two girls, I like the names Emma and Charley for girls, and maybe Julian, Calen and Something else that I can't come up with because I just had a mind blank for boys. 

Have you ever thought about how your life might work out?

After school: I actually don't mind our senior girls uniform :)

Dinner was almond couscous with chicken. I had already taken some off the plate at this point... I'm finding it pretty hard at the moment but I'm really trying to eat what mum and dad want me to so will be eating everything tomorrow definitely!