Recipe By: Arachne

Recipe for Life According to My Mother

Age 14-18: Graduate High School, get an honors degree, participate in sports, be involved, get high marks in the SAT, participate in AP classes, volunteer within your community, prepare for college.

Age 19-22: Got to college, find a path that you love, be on the college golf team, find a career you are passionate about, find a part time job, remember college is your main job, apply for an internship, get through college, learn to live alone, learn to provide for yourself, remember to ask for help when you need it.

Age 22-24: Find the job that you love, be with the person that you love, look to the future, live fully on your own, live close to your mother, be with your family, get engaged, visit your mother, remember to ask for help.

Age 25-45: Get married, build a family, give her grandchildren, settle down close to her, keep building in your career, provide for your family.

Age 50+: Travel the world, retire, put your kids through school, put your kids through college, travel, be happy, be a grandparent/great-grandparent.

My Life Goals

Age 19-22: Go to college, play golf in college, focus on a goal, find a career path you love, be spontaneous, accept that it is ok to change your mind, learn to live alone, find someone to go through life with you, help someone you don’t know, find someone to have your back, live in your own apartment, get a part time job, apply for an internship, graduate college, apply for AmeriCorps.

Age 22-24: Participate in the AmeriCorps, find a good job that you love, travel to somewhere amazing, find someone to spend your life with, find an equal to spend my life with, visit my family often, get engaged, be happy.

Age 25-45: Travel the world, live somewhere out of the country for a while, help a needy community, help someone you never met, go back to school, get PhD or Masters, find a job I love, teach what I know, inspire someone, get married, have children, own my Beagle named Beugle, live close enough to my family that my mother can see her grandchildren often, give someone hope, build my own home on a good size plot of land, have a garden, have a pond, have a small farm, have a swing set, capture my life in photos, teach my children, raise children, provide for my children to get through school, teach my children morals and ethics that my mother taught me.

Age 50+: Get my children through college, let my children know I will do anything to get them through school, travel the world, see all that I can, only stop working when I want to, connect with an old friend, witness my grandchildren, have a swing set to push them on, volunteer my skills, garden, be happy spending my life with the people I love.