Day 22 - Where do I see myself in the future

April challenge
Day 22 - Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 10 years? 15 years?

Wow, hard topic again! And here's why. My future life-view has been completely transformed and turned around so much within the last few years and especially within the last 8-12 months. It's mostly due to Jonathan finding a great blog (that I've mentioned on here before), Mr. Money Mustache. We started reading from the beginning last September, and are slowly catching up. The good/bad thing is that MMM (as he likes to refer to himself) has kept on posting great articles. Good because there's more great stuff for us to read, but bad because, having not yet caught up to his current posts, there are always more and more to read. Anyway, we're already trying many ideas from the blog and others we've come up with on our own since reading it. And we really want to keep many of those up when we get back home. Here's just one example. Back before we started reading the blog, Jonathan planned to buy a used 4Runner when we got back to have in addition to my awesome little second-hand 1989 Honda Accord that is still working wonderfully well. Now we're not looking into owning two cars for the time being, but instead getting two reliable bikes and doing our best to use them most of the time, only using our Accord for longer trips. Of course, at this point we have no concrete plans for where we'll work or live or any of that stuff, so we'll adapt as we see fit. But we'll continually be thinking of ways to consume less and be happier with less. It's worked for us over here so far and we've really enjoyed some of the things we could have thought of as annoyances (tiny apartment, no vehicle, etc.). Really, though, living here has way more conveniences than inconveniences. A three-minute walk to church and two-minute (for Jonathan) or five-minute (for me) walk to work. Yes please! A great little independent grocery store four-five minutes away that has more than enough variety for us (we tend to stay away from the fresh squid and mussels, etc.). Wonderful! Extensive and really well groomed trails covering the ridge directly behind our campus. Awesome! Loads of free or very cheap, interesting, and culturally diverse things to see and do here in Seoul as well as within a few hours from the capital city. Wow, how will we ever get it all in before we have to leave?!

So I'm hesitant to write too much about what my specific dreams and wishes are for five, 10, or 15 years in the future. Yeah, in five years I'd like to have a kid or few. Maybe a paid-off house with a yard in 10 or 15 (I just decided today that I'd be pretty happy in a little log cabin in the woods that we made together from scratch, but again, no promise on that, just a current thought). But I think most of all, what I hope for my life in five, 10, or 15 years is to be perfectly happy and satisfied with how my life is. I'm pretty close right now (I could definitely do without the sewage smell that suddenly jumped into existence with the end of the cold weather), and can only hope to become more and more satisfied with my life the longer I live. So that's all I can give you for this post. Hope it was at least a little bit interesting.