10 Years Ago

February 13, 2009


There’s no significance to this day ten years ago.

I sat at St. Cloud State University, in the lobby of Hill-Case Hall, after transferring just a few months earlier from the barren, small town culture at Southwest State University in Marshall, MN. I might have been reading Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War, a surprisingly interesting book prescribed in my History of the World: Antiquity to 1700’s class. I had probably just eaten at Atwood, the student commons; a Rice Krispy bar, maybe a bagel with cream cheese.

I was studying to be a teacher. A science teacher. That was the only thing I had mapped out for my future - I would teach science to middle school kids.

I had absolutely no idea that, in ten years, I’d be sitting at a desk with no kids around me. No classroom. No school. Just a desk at an advertising agency.

That I’d be a writer.

That, on this day, ten years from now, I’d be sitting down to write an ad.

About varicose veins.

Think about that. The future really is pretty hazy, isn’t it?

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One Response to “10 Years Ago”

  1. Cynthia on February 17th, 2009 1038 pm

    I am somewhat like you were ten years ago, studying to be a teacher, but of English, not science. It is nice to be reassured that even though I think I have a chunk of my future mapped out, there is a lot of room for change and exploration :). I was recently introduced to Blogs and the enormous amount of reading material on the internet, and a friend recommended this site. I really, REALLY enjoy reading the posts here.

    - Cynthia

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