Karen the editor's page.Do you ever wish someone from the future would magically appear and tell you what life is gonna gon·na Informal Contraction of going to: We're gonna win today. be like 10, 20, 100 years from now? Well, maybe not what life is going to be like (we'll all have flying cars!) but what your life is going to be like? I mean, yeah, it would be great to know all the ice caps aren't going to melt, drowning drowning /drown·ing/ (droun´ing) suffocation and death resulting from filling of the lungs with water or other substance. drowning, n asphyxiation because of submersion in a liquid. all the polar bears polar bear, large white bear, Ursus maritimus, formerly Thalarctos maritimus, of the coasts of arctic North America. Polar bears usually live on drifting pack ice, but sometimes wander long distances inland. and turning New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. into Atlantis. But, let's face it, who hasn't thought about the future and wondered about all the exciting things that might happen to us? Well, consider me your own personal time traveler A time traveler (British English: time traveller) is a person who engages in time travel. The name "Time Traveler" (or "Traveller") may refer to any of the following:
OK, OK, I really shouldn't say that. The future has loads of exciting stuff planned. For about six people. One girl from my high school, Julie, created these smart baby DVDs and sold the company for a gazillion ga·zil·lion n. Informal An indefinitely large number: "The crowd cheered wildly . . . as gazillions of balloons poured down from the rafters" Tom Shales. dollars. Tony, who was my brother's best friend, was one of the people who invented a little something called the iPod. When my brother first told me, I didn't totally believe him. Then I opened Time magazine last year and saw his picture. Apparently, Tony really did invent the iPod. A few other people from my graduating class went on to play pro sports or be in bands you've actually heard of. And some got really rich, really fast by working really hard at jobs that pay really well. But for the most part?. Everyone turned out ... normal. Why I expected anything else, I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. . I guess in high school the big adult world just seemed so vast, so endless, so glamorous. Like anything could happen to any one of us. But apparently what happens is that you work hard at a job you mostly like, get married to someone you really like and then have three kids (it's the now two kids). Nothing wrong with that. Pretty nice, actually. Yet somehow I imagined that because we'd been told how smart, talented and fabulous we ware, life would be one big fiesta. Enh, not really. But for the ones who did do extraordinary things, like Julie and Tony, I can't say I'd have predicted it. The athletes, rock stars, rich guys, yeah, maybe you could have seen it coming. But them? No clue. My point is this: How your life turns out is more up to you than you might think. Some of my classmates Classmates can refer to either:
As hard as it is to imagine, you'll be at your high school reunion one day, listening to how people's lives turned out and mentally trying to match them to the little movie you created in your head way back when. I'd love to tell you how it's going to turn out and who'll be the star. But I can't, what I can tell you is that, for each of us in our own ways, there's a happy ending. KB |
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