I remember when we were asked during job interviews where you see yourself in five years. We were supposed to have some grand plan that was impressive. Watch an old Dick Clark’s bandstand where Madonna premiered, and she was asked about the future. Do you know what she said? Madonna answered simply, “To rule the world.” Word! Nice! Why not?
Those of us who currently go through job interviews should never be asked that question. Those of us, including myself, who were asked that question four years ago, totally got it wrong. The pandemic happened. It upended all our visions. How could anyone guess where they would be in five years, yet alone 10 years? This is now a non-question.
Ten years from now? I honestly don’t know how to even conceive of that. Those who were asked that question three years ago completely got the question wrong. I think I’ll just say I want to rule the world and see what people say.
Categories: Culture, current events, identity, mental health, Psychology, society
psychologistmimi 
SMiLes 9 Years 8 Months
And 27 Days Ago i Decided
to Rule My World Dear Miriam
It’s True i’ll Let the Others Have
A Go At the Rest oF iT
With SMiLes
After i Decided to
Do it on July 19th, 2013
Standing On A Beach Literally
And Metaphorically RiSinG Out
of Hell Within Most All the Pain And
Numb of A Synergy in Life Threat of
19 Medical Disorders Melting Away
Becoming One Then With Sugar White Sands
Emerald Green Waves Sea Oats Swaying in the
Breeze Sea Gull Wings Spiraling Around the Sun
Soon Enough Not Only Transforming into Poetic
Free FLoWinG 11.5 MiLLioN Words of ‘SonG oF mY SoUL’ Yet A Free
Meditating FLoWinG Dance All Around my Local World From Within to
The Outside
Above So Below
And All Around Too
For 18,144 Miles As of Tonight…
True THere is A Place Beyond All
KNoWinG True THeRE iS A Place
of Deeper Soulful Intuition That Comes
To A Faith in Always Now Forevermore Still To Come New
Well Yes Statistically At Least it Seems 3 Months 3 Days to Make
10 Years Is As Likely As Almost 117 Months Before Now To Breathe
A Faith of Giving Sharing
Caring Healing Every Way
i Go Newly Now Still To Come
Free True
It Starts Within And One
Becomes So Engaged THere
is No Fear And Only 100 Percent
Faith Continuing to Flow Up And Above
The Below
of Before Yes
Of Course It Helps
Not to Have to Work For
Pay Oh Lord The Benefits
of Finally Escaping the Golden
Benefits Handcuffs Trying to Stay
While the Ship Sinks
When Ya
Find Out
Ya Own the
Whole Boat Anchors
For Safe Harbors and
Sails to LiVE iN NeW Edens For Real
Yet Ya FeeL And Sense Honestly After
Enduring the Type Two Trigeminal Neuralgia
The Worst Pain Known to Humankind No Drug
Would Touch For 66 Month From Wake to Sleep
Along With the Rest of the Life Threat in Synergy
of 18 Medical Disorders And Then Coming Back From
All the Pain
And Numb
Then of Never
Even Remembering
The Feelings of A SMiLE
THere is A Kind of Faith
Named Perspective That
Is A Reality of Gratitude So
Great That There is No Room Any More For No Thanks…
i’ve Lost The Effective Ability to Use my Eyes, Ears, Taste,
Smell, Touch, And Even A Next Breath of Life Oh Dear Lord
Along With the Memory of
Ever Feeling A Smile In Life
God Yes Just Newly to Have
All That Returning STiLL NoW
to Feel and Sense And Breathe
Freely Now Oh Dear Lord the
Rest Is Just Icing Newly on the
Heaven Now i Didn’t Fully Realize
i Was Born With From the Very Start
It’s True Life is All About Perspectives
THere Are Days We May Be Most Blessed
When WHeRE We
Lose it All
To Finally
Find What
We Already
Are Born With
As Such A Greatest Gift Just Breathing
Just Feeling And Sensing All Alive With SMiLes…
Yet Obviously A View i Rarely Will Ever Be Able to Fully Give to Others…
Yet Oh Dear Lord Always An Opportunity to See How Others Breathe
So Very
Differently
Than me Gaining
Wisdom Gratefully To Stay
WHeRE i AM Now Newly Even More..:)
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Always good to have the goal of ruling the world… 😉
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But you still have to plan. For education costs. For retirement costs – you wouldn’t want to depend on government largesse – we’re a long way from universal health and old age care, and the demographics are that people are having fewer kids, even in India.
You have to make plans, knowing they are at best a guess or a straight-line projection of the present, and utterly unreliable.
We did – and should have spent more money on fun stuff and travel BEFORE I caught ME/CFS and it became a struggle to get through each day. I tell my kids that.
You can’t predict, but the time will pass, and there you will be.
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Oh yes, I’m doing nothing but planning now that tragedy has struck. It just is so sad.
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It really is. SO sorry. How’s your boy doing? Gentle hugs your way (if you’re the hugging kind), otherwise waving.
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Thank you. He’s actually ok. 🙂
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I loved this! I love that you have no idea. That you can’t even conceive this concept. It’s crazy how people can say “I will be doing … in ten years”. I don’t even know what I will be doing next year!
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Sometimes I don’t even know what I will be doing tomorrow 🙃
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In interviews, in response to that question, I would say: “Something enjoyable and challenging.”
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One foot in front of the other, if I can still walk.
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Mimi, I don’t believe you should always listen to what others say. Throughout my life, I haven’t had many people that would genuinely listen to what I had to say rather than react to it. We are all experience-based beings, and everyone’s experiences are wide and unique.
People are frightened, and I believe this is also what the Media tries to convey. I recall occasions during the Pandemic when close friends and family members fell into a deep depression due to watching too much television. Besides, if it isn’t the Pandemic, there’s always something else, a war, high prices, and who knows what else is on the horizon.
I just stopped watching TV, trusting others, and basing my emotions on them. Being brave shouldn’t happen only because others push you up or whether they believe in you or not. It’s about doing what you love, being yourself, and believing in your purpose. Who will stand against you if what fills your cup is ruling the world? 🙂
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make a longer plan. last comment got deleted. cheers to my 60 year plan of longevity. second that. 75 for one hundred rules.
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Cheers
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so, just make a longer plan. 🙂 cheers to my 30 year plan of still being able to kick it and write. Let’s make that 50 for longevity reasons. 60. , fine I’ll live to a hundred.
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