Four years ago and from now

So like loads of other people watched a bit of the closing ceromony and they were talking about Rio in four years.

Anyway got me thinking about what was happening in my life four years ago. Sometimes it doesn't feel that long ago but at other times it feels like different life. In that time I've moved a few times, changed jobs, gone traveling, know people who got married or had kids, and some not so happy memories.

In four years time I'd like to have gone traveling again and maybe living in a bigger place. So moving and traveling again.

What were you doing four years ago?

What do you want to have done/ be doing in four years time?

I’d like to be freelance, see my youngest lad start school and have moved to a more rural area.

My concern is that whole ‘society being three meals away from decivilisation’ thing; I worry that in four years I could be fending off feral scavengers whilst trying to cook pigeon stew in a field!

…Although that could be cos it’s late and I’ve just watched Escape From New York.

Four years ago to the day, I was pondering what I would be thinking about in four years time. Thanks to this thread, I now know.

Four years ago I was living in London working full-time in an office job that bored me stupid and was in a hideously destructive relationship with a manipulative partner who was making my life a misery, now I'm living in the Cotswolds, doing a job that I love (stand up comedy) and am married to a wonderful woman who supports me in everything I do.

Four years ago seems like a lifetime.

Quote: Tony Cowards @ August 13 2012, 9:50 AM BST

Four years ago I was living in London working full-time in an office job that bored me stupid and was in a hideously destructive relationship with a manipulative partner who was making my life a misery, now I'm living in the Cotswolds, doing a job that I love (stand up comedy) and am married to a wonderful woman who supports me in everything I do.

Four years ago seems like a lifetime.

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Yay!

It somewhat depresses me to think my life was much then as it is now - same worries with slight variations.

Quote: keewik @ August 13 2012, 10:21 AM BST

It somewhat depresses me to think my life was much then as it is now - same worries with slight variations.

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Some of that may not be so bad. There are parts of my life I wish were still the same as four years ago.

Four years ago I was living over the brush in a city centre, and now I'm married and live in a village. Apart from that and some extra pesky wrinkles nothing much has changed.

In four years time I'd like to have moved back into Newcastle and to have popped out a sprog or two. What modest little aims I have

4 years ago I was living in a damp student house with a hole in my ceiling from a leaking roof, about to have 3 crazy new housemates move in, none of whom knew how to wash a plate or, to be honest, themselves. I was deeply unhappy with my course and my uni (and therefore, not doing very well at it) and frustrated that my previous lovely housemates had just graduated.

But I did have a magical summer in 2008 - 12 students were hired by the uni library to reprogramme all of the books into a new system and all 12 of us got on so well that we spent all of our free time in a group at eachother's houses/pub. The uni was deserted because it was summer, so we had the whole place to ourselves and we played frisbee in every break, and watched movies together, had sleep-overs, and invented games to play while we were working. 6 people paired off (myself included) and it was absolute bliss! It was The Breakfast Club over 6 weeks. But then the summer ended, and now I'm only in touch with 4 out of the 12.

Oh, and I shaved my head that summer - wow, a lot happened that summer!

In 4 years I think I might be doing a teaching qualification, or perhaps a phd, depending on how my academic interests develop.

Four years ago my 22 year old daughter phoned me to say she was pregnant.
She was scared of what I would say and scared of the outcome.
Her fears were unfounded. I told her 'how could I be cross, I get to be a grandad'
She lives in a lovely house with her 'partner' (the father) and I have the most gorgeous grandaughter a grandad could wish for.

In four years time I want my other daughter to have got cracking with grandchildren

4 years I was just starting as a writer, infact having had an initial blaze of glory writing for News Revue I joined BCG. I'd just moved from a lovely loft in a shared house south of the river, to a grim keyworker block north of the river. I was working for Islington on a odd project but still kinda fun.

4 years time? Well if I'm not dead. I'd like to think I'd have settled down in my life alot more. And split my career into care training/consultancy part of the time and writing shit professionally the other half.

Four years agoI was hawking a screenplay around looking for an agent.

Now I've got one - am in work - but nothing made yet.

In four years time I hope to have got something made and inched my way up the ladder before old age kicks in and I have to inch my way down again.

Four years ago today I was reflecting on my succesful Bejing Olympics thread.

Four years ago I was reading this thread. https://www.comedy.co.uk/forums/thread/8668/
Did that ever happen?

Four years ago, I was doing nothing but being exceptionally excited about the inaugural BSG meet.