5 Years From Now
By Lola Hart
This is what I imagine my life to be like in 5 years. The future makes me nervous because anything can happen but I remain optimistic always.
5 years from now I will have graduated with my bachelors degree. Iā€™ll be in medical school debt free; learning how to professionally help people. Iā€™ll be surrounded by good friends who are all succeeding and doing good things with their lives. Kind, motivational, and extraordinary human beings. 5 years from now my heart will finally be healed. Iā€™ll have dealt with all the sadness and pain people have caused me. I will learn to forgive those who did me wrong even if they were not sorry. I will no longer accept less than what I deserve. No toxicity will be tolerated around me. 5 years from now I will have met the love of my life. A person who respects and loves me unconditionally. They will understand and value me completely. Communication will be our strongest suit. We will learn to apologize when weā€™re wrong and not make silly mistakes to jeopardize our relationship. 5 years from now Iā€™ll have a nice little apartment in New York. A little job in my career field of psychiatry to pay the bills. Iā€™ll have a pet fish. Maybe even a roommate who I'll grow an amazing bond with. 5 years from now Iā€™ll have started my first book. Iā€™ll write for it consistently. Iā€™ll attend writing workshops to keep me going and inspire me. Being in a book club would also be nice. 5 years from now I donā€™t know where Iā€™ll be. But I will speak good things into existence. I said and it shall be.
Lola Hart
Lola Hart is a Psychology major with a Writing minor at SUNY Buffalo. She has been published in two Girls Write Now anthologies. An excerpt from her piece "The Inheritanceā€¯ can be found in Ctrl+B: The Girls Write Now 2019 Anthology. The second, "5 Years From Now," appears in Taking Our Place in History: The Girls Write Now 2020 Anthology. She performed her iconic poem "The Bad Old Days" at the 2019 Agents of Change Awards and at a Girls Write Now Chapters Reading in June 2019. Lola Hart is Nigerian and resides in Queens, NY.
