In 5 years , if your life was exactly the same as it is now , would you be happy , content or sad?

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Content for myself

Sad, I think. I worry desperately about how my asd son will grow and develop. Currently year on year he gets more challenging. Also, at the moment I'm working crazy, unsustainable hours at work. I'd hope to cut back. Apart from that, I'm happy enough with life

Please no. Couldn't cope with this level on unhappiness and lack of internal peace.

Content. Which means I’d be happy.

Sad, my 5 year old ASD child currently only goes to school for 45 mins a day and I’m in living hell with the county council trying to get him a school place. Being at home with him is like being in an abusive relationship but my abuser is my son and not my spouse and I have no choice. I’m going to have to give up work to facilitate everything and and I’m drowning.

My 1 year old gets little to no time because of the above. Before anyone asks why I got pregnant, the oldest’s needs weren’t anywhere near as apparent when we decided on a baby/I fell pregnant.

It has to be better in 5 years because it remaining the same is unthinkable.

I would be happy if i still had my job and my family was still just me and my kids, I would be sad if I hadn't improved my housing situation.

Hmm, good question, content, I think, but the only change I'm really looking to make between now and then is having another baby, so I guess it depends on why that didn't happen.

Happy. I see choppy waters ahead with parents and pil getting older and dc entering teenage years. If everything was the same in 5 years, I would be delighted.

Sad but only because I'm hoping to be in a new home by then 😃 everything else I'd be content with ☺️

Happy in some ways but I wish some areas were easier with my son. I hope it will be better in 5 years

This sounds so tough. I'm sorry 😔. Really hope things improve for you x

Happy

Blimey I'd be gutted if everything is the same as now 🤦‍♀️

It's currently the most difficult time of my life due to an ageing sick parent. I've never felt so fed up.

I wouldn't say sad but If I'm 9 months pregnant again in 5 years at almost 44 years of age I will not be impressed lol

I would also definitely hope to be in a better financial position and have a bit more of a life of my own by that time.

However life could also be a lot worse than it is now so I guess I'd be grateful we weren't suffering.

Sad. I would still be single and in my mum's spare room.

I hope my DD is happier and more independent in 5 years time. I also hope I have found a good way to extract myself from my relationship by then. I will be disappointed if I am still v overweight then too. However, I don’t want to say sad as things could be a lot worse and I am scared of life without my Mum in it, which realistically could be the case within 5 years.

Happy for me. Sad for the UK.

I'd like to be retired (or at least semi-retired!) in 5 years, but if that wasn't the case I'd still be happy with life the way it is.

I've been asking myself this quite a lot, because I think quite soon I'm going to have to make a career decision. Do I actually want the promotion I thought I wanted? I'm an academic, and it would be the move from Research Fellow to Professor. Its probably going to be on the table for me in the next year. I really thought this is what I've been working towards. And I can't lie, the money would be nice. But for a couple of years now I've been working closely with people who are in professorships, and I what I see is that a lot of their lives is taking up with managing people, funding applications and beaurocracy rather than actual research. They seem stressed most of the time. I'm not very good at changing my mind. It would be a big emotional shift for me to admit to myself that actually, maybe its not what I want after all. But on the other hand, maybe it is?!

Content. I'd rather have sorted a career, but overall life's pretty good.

Sad

I really want to turn things around for me in 2023

Happy, content and grateful

Ecstatic and thankful. I am beyond lucky and want the future to continue to be good for all of us.

It would be brilliant.

We are at the stage where my much older DH is elderly and noticeably loosing capability. Five years grace would be great.

I would probably feel a little sad because I/we have goals as individuals and as a family. But the basic things: roof over our head, love, health, family. I would be happy if they were still the same in five years time.

Depends what perspective you throw on the question.

Happy and content