Ah. My "Hopes and Dreams." - Realistic or not.

1. Travel TRAVEL to my heart's content. I really want to do things, see places, ride a horse on a beach with total strangers. I just want to live and I think the
only way I can truly live is by hopping aboard a flight/train/bus, and cutting my self off temporarily with my home-base.

2. Become brave enough to stand on a New York street corner with a Free Hugs sign. I love meeting new people, finding out about their lives, culture, customs, habits, friends. No, I assure you, I don't stalk people, really. I'm totally chill with public speaking, *talking to a camera outside in public, or acting silly with my friends if they were the sort to act silly but I hate being touched. I do not like shoes, public bathrooms, or things other people have used. Well, except if it's one of my friends' items. Still nix on the shoes part.

3. Finally figure out what I want to do for a career path. I know I want to do something with animals and science. Marine Biology is still my number one interest, but my parents are pushing me towards teaching. Both of my parents are teachers - my dad's a high school math teacher and my mom a kindergarten teacher. Though I must say, I do enjoy kids.

4. Special someone. I know many people don't find their certain somebody. I know that the divorce rate in the US is at around 50%. Marriage scares me. Sure, my parents have been married for thirty years and for most of those thirty years, have been happy. But I still worry that marriage wouldn't be right for me. My mom tells me that marriage isn't a 50/50 partnership, that the woman must give much more and sacrifice much more than the man. Why is that?! I want a guy who won't blow me off to watch a silly sports game when there's other work to be done. I want a guy who can put up a fight and disagree with me. I want a real person, not some soppy flat character who a) could give me everything I wanted or b) thinks he's better than everyone else. I want a guy who will hug me when I yell and ask him to split chores. Someone who will happily get into a paint fight when we're putting up the last coat in the living room. Someone who is loyal, caring, honest, and willing to fight for what they believe in. A person who will not run out when faced with a tough situation nor go out and get hammered every weekend. Someone willing to walk down the street holding hands. A guy who will dance with me somewhere random without music. A person with faults. The guy who reads and isn't afraid to argue or discuss politics. Someone who shares the same desire to travel and adventure. Someone who will let me be my own person and be respectful of my needs. Lay out on some grassy hill at night watching airplanes take off. Someone who will happily people watch with me. Drink tea and make cold coffee while devouring a book or the newspaper. Clip out funny comics to tape up on a cabinet. And most importantly, a guy I can laugh with!!

Wow. I'm not the type to want a perfect person. I want faults, scars, hopes, dreams. The point of a relationship is to grow with somebody, not to be waited on hand and foot. It makes me so mad me when I hear girls get upset at their boyfriends because they didn't buy them expensive jewelry. It sickens me to think that this is what they think relationships are. It's about trust, honesty, and cooperation.

5. Play a musical instrument. Well. I honestly wish I hadn't given up piano or flute. I wish I could sing, but my voice is off key. I have a guitar sitting in my room and I cannot get the hang of it for the life of me. I'm just not musically talented.

6. Buy a massive load of home decor stuff and design an apartment, once I get an apartment. I pride myself with being thrifty, finding great deals, and having a sense of style. Sure, my present bedroom fails to reflect this side of me due to it's awful organization, papers everywhere, and piles of clothes hovering on chairs and my bed, but seriously, if I had a place to spread out and not so much useless paperwork I "needed" for school and time to set up and decorate my room the way I wanted, my room would be lovely. In my future house, there will be a library, got it Universe? I'm so excited to decorate my dorm room when I go off to college in two years, you don't even know.


7. Stay healthy and fit for the rest of my life. I already have a knee injury which gives me trouble from time to time. Eating healthy, avoiding genetic diabetes, and general atrophy. I want to be able to run, dance, and hopefully, do a cartwheel when I'm 55. I guess if I just do what I'm doing now and not gorging myself on tubs of ice cream, I'm good. Wouldn't it be horrible if you wanted to go out for a walk but couldn't? It's a scary thought and I want to make sure I'm fit now so I won't suffer in the future.

I believe seven is more than enough for this post - I've caught the writing bug today. :-)

Have a great week everyone!!