We're only making plans

Listening to XTC's 'Making Plans for Nigel' reminds me of being young and thinking of what my life would be like "when I got older".
It makes me laugh now to think of what I thought I wanted, what I changed, how I changed and how so much of doesn't change.

I won't reveal here what I wanted fully, but I can tell you that I didn't think of being married or having kids. I thought about living in exotic places and traveling and meeting new people and most of all, living.
Those things haven't changed. And I'm managed to do some of those things, perhaps not as intense as I thought at that time, but I did them none the less.
It feels good to know that who I thought I'd want to be didn't change much from who I became... well, except the wanting to be married and have kids part. That did change...because now I want those things.
And it only took me decades.
;D