Looking back to when you were about 15/16 years old ...

[Tender Branson]

did your life so far turn out like you expected it to be at this point in time ?

(Obviously, this is only for posters who are at least 20 years old or so ... )

My 30th birthday is coming up soon, and I'm officially an old soon, so it's time to evaluate the life situation.

For me, mostly yes.

Obviously, I thought that I'd be in a relationship with a hot woman by now (nah, not really ...) and that I maybe had kids (nah, not really either ...), but otherwise it's like I expected it. I have a nice penthouse apartment, a nice car, a good job, enough savings and I'm generally healthy.

What about you ?

[Rjjr77]

did your life so far turn out like you expected it to be at this point in time ?

(Obviously, this is only for posters who are at least 20 years old or so ... )

My 30th birthday is coming up soon, and I'm officially an old soon, so it's time to evaluate the life situation.

For me, mostly yes.

Obviously, I thought that I'd be in a relationship with a hot woman by now (nah, not really ...) and that I maybe had kids (nah, not really either ...), but otherwise it's like I expected it. I have a nice penthouse apartment, a nice car, a good job, enough savings and I'm generally healthy.

What about you ?

Haha no, and thank god it hasn't

[Torie]

Basically yes, although no, I didn't expect to end up living in Hudson  on the "wrong" side of the tracks with a gay Samoan guy and a miniature snoodle (staring at me sadly at the moment with his adorable little face because I am typing rather the roughhousing with him), and "meddling" in nearly everything that goes on within the city limits. Who knew that I was the "meddling" type?

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Knowing my luck, it won't, but I'm hoping I'll be surprised.

[DC Al Fine]

My life has turned out pretty much exactly as planned thus far. Married young, got a professional job, had a kid young.

[SWE]

Yeah, about a year ago I predicted that I'd be a Senior in High School at this point. It's scary how accurate I was.

[Antonio the Sixth]

In most respects, my life so far has turned out much better than I ever imagined it would. The respects in which it hasn't are pretty serious, though.

[Kingpoleon]

As a fifteen year old:

Yes - I think??

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

In some ways yes, other ways no, but at 25 it's really far too early to say. 

[LLR]

As long as I don't have memory loss between now and then, yes.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

nah m8 i assumed i'd still be a dude

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Well, I'm still alive so that's the biggest difference between where I thought I'd be at 15 and where I am now.

[Dr. Arch]

Well, I'm still alive so that's the biggest difference between where I thought I'd be at 15 and where I am now.

That hits deep

[Xing]

The past 10-12 years have definitely not gone exactly how I planned. In many ways, that's a good thing, since I've done much more traveling and living abroad than I thought I would do. On the other hand, getting my career started has been a bit more of a struggle and taken longer than I anticipated.

[Mr. Smith]

Absolutely not.

And for the most part, it's been very unfavorable.

[Crumpets]

Not really. I was certain I'd be out of Seattle at this point, and the only real question for me was whether I'd be on the East Coast, UK, or elsewhere in Europe. I was pretty dead-set on getting as far away from home as possible at that age. I still am to some extent, but at least my life is more together now than it probably would have been if I had gone to university in the UK.

[Bojack Horseman]

Far from it.

[Figueira]

I'm a senior at the university that I kind of figured I would end up going to, so yeah. Next year is another question altogether.

[Anna Komnene]

Pretty sure I didn't have any expectations about where I'd be in the future when I was 15.  I guess I did put together my college list for good journalism programs.  Never actually took a journalism course...

[Mike Thick]

Since the past year has been incredibly different from what I expected back when I joined Atlas, I think I'll end up surprised one way or the other.

[Leinad]

Yeah a bit different. Life is really freaking hard. Like, wow. Hard. I was not fully aware of the magnitude of that fact.

maybe had kids (nah, not really either ...),

How can this be a not really? Is there something you have to tell us?

[Vosem]

Well, I'm 19 right now, so it isn't as though a large amount of time has passed. It has gone more or less as I intended it would, yes, though some details I did get wrong.

[Meclazine for Israel]

Ýes and no.

Had three boys which i never expected.

But i feel pretty good about life. At 16, i never would have envisaged the improvement in quality of life through technological advances.

Existential crisis is always a possibility in your 30's.

[Higgs]

Far better than I thought it would.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

At that age I was sick and didn't think I'd live until 21.  It was close, but thankfully I was wrong.