Day 3

My goals for the next five years are to move to a bigger flat, to travel to America, Japan and Australia, and to have my first child.

Preventing me from reaching these is money! But I am saving so this will help me to achieve them :)

I would also ideally like to have one or both of my completed novellas accepted for publication during this time, but whether or not this happens is outside my control; it relies on my continuing to be determined and hoping for luck to be on my side.

My positivity for the future comes mainly from the happiness and security I derive from my family, friends and job.

The negativity I feel about the future stems from the fact of my not being in the career I really want due to bad advice I received in the past; this means I have to work so much harder to even have a chance of getting into that career. I also feel negative about the future due to the dumbing down of UK education and the increasing sexualisation of its culture, as well as the increasing pervasiveness of technology: it is this world into which any children that I might have will be born and grow up, and I worry about what kind of childhood and youth young people today will have as a result.

The three things I would like to change would be the sexualisation of culture and the pervasiveness of technology as mentioned above; I would also like the work ethic of people in the UK to be increased as there seems to be a viewpoint growing in popularity that it is OK to get something for nothing, or that it is OK to want to be famous without knowing or caring what for.