Sunday, November 25, 2018

The Future I Want, The Future with a Plot Twist, and the Dramatic Future




Story 1: My ideal future would be me working from home as a full-time YouTuber and blogger, getting paid to travel to make appearances for waves and collecting residual income. I also plan on working with toddlers doing early interventions at their homes twice a week helping them develop their speech one on one on the side with my master's degree. I'm done having kids am I am happy stopping after I have my second boy. I have my step-daughter and she fulfills plenty of what I need in a daughter so there's no need to try again for my own. I plan to have a decent size tiny home on wheels that I can take with me anywhere to travel to events around the US and I also plan to homeschool my children on that journey so that they can be well-rounded. My husband and I would still be married and our strong would be better than ever as he is YouTube famous with me as the famous wave couple and beat maker for Krump tracks (a style of dance songs meant for a dance called Krump.) My main home would be somewhere in Providence RI even though I'm from Boston to have a good enough distance from my family but close enough to still visit Boston. I would have a Honda Odyssey and my husband would deck it out and drop it low to the ground. He would also have multiple cars of his own. My husband and I would be making so much money that we could start savings accounts for each of our children and have residuals split between them going in constantly, however, our children would be disciplined and learn how to save their monies and spend wisely. Everyone would have great credit scores and my kids would be able to stay with me in my other regular and larger home in Rhode Island as long as they needed to feel stable. I would have paid off all of our debt and my husband would be free from child support.
Story 2: The story takes a turn and I end up getting pregnant again, this time with a baby girl that I name Nilanna Venus Silva. Nilanna is much younger than my other kids who are already teenagers themselves so I start to focus more on her and less on travel. I instead plan to keep my larger home in Rhode Island and start working strictly from home putting speech therapy on the back burner during my three-month maternity leave. I have a hard time leaving my first daughter when it's time to go back into work so I look for work at a daycare instead and become a teacher at whichever school Nilanna attends so that I could always be with her until she is around 4 years old. I then start to homeschool her as well along while my sons are in college and my step-daughter is living in my tiny house traveling or parked in my backyard. My husband is supporting us but is older and is having a hard time having the energy for a young baby all over again but he still manages to make me feel like a queen and helps out a lot to let me sleep. We are still making youtube videos and collecting residuals, so we are financially set and decided to retire our day jobs to focus on Nilanna and she too gets a bank account so we work harder on having more content on our youtube page so that our residuals are greater.
Story 3: With Trump being in office, he passes a law sending all black people to Africa using HR121. People forced to go and some people want to go because Black Panther was filmed there and a lot of people believe that Wakanda is real. Our family ends up getting shipped there and we all have to learn how to survive in a new habitat, get used to the extreme heat, and learn how to hunt. Every family becomes a slave to a Ghanian king and he forces us to pick cotton or our heads get cut off. No one ever assumed that black people would be slaves to Africans and America would be made white again instead of great again. My husband, my family, and I all stick together and find a way to escape and keep moving across Africa to a cave underground where no one finds us. The cave is located in a rain forest, so we try our best to collect rainwater when we feel it's safe to come out of the cave and when we feel the container we made out of mud that has hardened over time captures it. My family is forced to become vegetarians to survive because we eat the plants of the forest to survive. Sometimes we get lucky and my husband goes out to hunt when we hear creatures nearby, but for the most part, we have to live off of vegetation. My master's degree goes to waste and my husband and I have no technology or access to the internet to make money, so we live the rest of our lives hidden in the cave for survival.

1 comment:

  1. Marianna,

    Very well written and creative post. The twist seems quite mild compared with the alternate future. Very good story telling!

    This is great. The post looks professional and I like the images that you chose.

    Keep thinking of alternate futures, or plans B, C, etc... Only so that you have some back up ideas, practical ideas, in case life throws you any curve balls.

    Think of what other dream jobs and careers that you could tap into.
    Very creative story telling. Awesome details.

    Gr: 97

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