What will you be doing in the year 2037?

[HighlandWorrier]

Inspired by DS's homework project, I decided to write my own essay on how my life will be in 2037. Come and share what you will all be doing in 2037 yourselves...

It is the year 2037, I am 62 years of age. DH and I are enjoying our retirement in the South of France where we spend half the year. DH has taken up golf and I am still occasionally teaching piano. We spend our days relaxing by the pool and having lots of cheese and fine wines, what's not to love!

DS has just got married to a lovely Irish girl and is working at a prestigious law firm. DD is studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and we are looking forward to her visit next week, when we get to meet her new boyfriend!

Ours days in Scotland seem a lifetime ago, when the kids were little and causing mayhem. The years do start to fly by once you reach this age...

It's September 2037, I'm 46 years old, my kids are 28, 23 and 22. They're all enjoying their lives, settling into good jobs.
The oldest is probably in a relationship, happy. Maybe a child at this point.

The other 2 are still constantly winding each other up, but still close.

Im obviously still working, still doing a job i love. DP (who is 48) will be working too.
We will finally be married because his mum will hopefully be out of his life. (She is poisonous. Can't stand the woman and refuse.to have her at my wedding)

The kids will see me often, if they've moved out, as we are close.
Possibly still have the younger 2 at home though.

I’ll be 50. I’ll be a reknowned academic in my field perhaps a professor, spending a lot of time doing guest lectures and writing. Me and DH live in a beautiful Victorian villa with bay windows and a lovely view over a bustling city. DS will be 22 and just graduating or finishing an apprenticeship, perhaps introducing us to his first serious partner before they go off travelling for six months. When I’m not working I run an acapella choir and sew beautiful things for my home. I do a lot of walking in the countryside and go to lots of art exhibitions and national trust houses and spend all my disposable income on mini breaks and boozy nights out with my oldest friends.
(Minus the being a famous professor and the house bit, this is basically my life now, which is nice!)

I will have retired. I hope to be volunteering still at a couple of local charities, and have no wish to move away.

In 2037 I will be 77 tears old , hopefully still alive , and DH and I will be in good health and pottering around , talking a nice cruise holiday every year
We will obviously have sold the large money pit we live in now , and be living somewhere small and easily manageable
DS will be 42 , happily married to the girl he met at uni , with 2 teenagers driving him up the wall
DD will be 40 , she’ll have a 2 year old and a new born , she and her DH will be running a successful therapy centre , working with troubled children

Oh dear
Will I still be alive ☹️

I’ll be 85

I will be 52. My kids will be 26 and 23 so hopefully up and out. Dh and I be boarding a cruise ship for 3 weeks in the carribean.

I'll be in my late 50s

I'll be one of two things :

A successful writer living in an enviable home

Struggling to survive in a future dystopian hellscape caused by The Water Wars

My daughter will be 60 and son 56
😱
My grandkids will be 39, 34, 33 ,30 , 28 And 27

Hopefully a better world for them than it is now

I'll be nearly 60 and probably still struggling to complete my fucking PhD.

I’ll be 63 and working in my last role, a very senior board level before I retire from full time work at about 68and take on some highly regarded consultancy work for which I’ll charge a small fortune. DH will have made a miraculous recovery from incurable cancer which will have been kept at bay for the last 18 years and he will be 65 and threatening to retire but still in a senior role in the company he joined after he had been in remission for a couple of years.

Our children will be 37, 34 and 30. The 37 year old will be working in the City having just got back from a few years in New York and will be living with his partner and they’ll have a small baby. My 34 year old will have her own flat in somewhere lovely like Hampstead, will have a fantastic law career and will be starting to think about having a baby. The youngest will have finally moved out after gently “encouragement” and will be fairly skint but loving his career as a choreographer. He will be living in east London somewhere and have lots of boyfriends, all most handsome than the last.

DH and I will finally sell the family home and move further into town so that we can enjoy London more, carry on working, get back into the theatre and to travel a bit more

I'll be 64, as will dh. We shall be retired, and hopefully taking benefit of the financial planning dh is so fond of, so doing a lot of travelling and enjoying term time holidays - I teach currently so, even when dd is not coming with us anymore, I will be restricted to holidaying in peak time. Hopefully we will still be healthy and well, and that my arthritis won't have progressed too much and the meds I currently take will be doing their job still. We will have more free time so will hopefully be keeping active with nice long walks.

Dd will be 35y so quite possibly married with her own family. Maybe I will be doing a bit of childcare for her, like our parents did when she was smaller. A lot will depend on where she settles. She plans to be a teacher, so will hopefully still be enjoying it.

I will be 61 and DH will be 66. Hopefully retired and living full time in The Lakes. Enjoying lots of walking, mountain biking (probably not what we do now but I can live in hope) and anything outdoor. Lots of traveling and reading all the books I buy and live in hope of reading one day.

DD will be 23 and hopefully still studying or starting on a rewarding career. With any luck we may have another DC.