Mia
by MIA FREEDMAN
As I watched the Olympic Closing Ceremony replay last night, I had two thoughts.
1. God I miss the Spice Girls. I must go and download their greatest hits on itunes. [small pause in thoughts while I did just that]
2. I can’t believe the Olympics are over for another 4 years!
Which led me to my next thought: where will I be when the Olympics is in Rio in 2016? Four years time. The first thing that popped into my head were my kids and how old they would be at the next Olympics: 8, 10 and 18.
Hold me.
Right now, that seems unfathomable. But during the LAST Olympics, in Beijing, I’d just given birth to my youngest son and that seems like the blink of an eye ago.
Funnily enough, I wasn’t the only one looking into the future in wonderment, trepidation and slight horror. The Twitter hashtag “#MyAgeForRio2016″ was trending around the world as everyone looked not so much to Rio as into a crystal ball.
So.
Where do you think you’ll be in 2016, the next time we’re debating who should carry our flag, whether athletes should be banned from social media and whether our swimmers will have shaken their Olympicus Horribilius and be cutting up the pool again?
More importantly, where do you HOPE to be? How old? Doing what? Where? And with who?
I’m quite a big believer in putting it out there so let’s.
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222 Comments so far
I will be 42 (scary!). My little girl will be 4 years old & maybe still at preschool or about to enter school. I do hope to have had another child (only 1 more!) by then & maybe a house situation made clear to us. Hubby will be 44 & in laws will be 71 & 67 years old respectively. I just hope to be happy & healthy & Australia coming back with more GOLD
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I will married to the man of my dreams, a homeowner and have newborn baby, 4 year old and 8 year old
… And planning a trip to. Euope when i fimish my bachelor degree 
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loving reading all these comments! I’ll be nearly 30 (eek!) and hope to be a married homeowner, living in our dream house, finished my studies, maybe with a bub. cant wait!
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In four years time I will be 29. Which isn’t that scary because at least I’m still in my 20′s… right? Honestly though, age isn’t an issue for me but what I really want is to look back and see that I have achieved something memorable in the next four year period. I am in my final year at University and extremely uncertain about what I want to do once I graduate. I really hope in four years time I will have discovered myself more and found a path that I’m happy on. And I really hope to enter my 30′s with less insecurities and self doubt than I have had in my 20′s. I guess I’ll leave the rest up to fate!
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Hopefully back together back with the father of
My children, a qualified interior designer
And living in Auckland.
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I’ll be 39. My kids will be nearly 8. I was waiting for them to arrive during the last olympics so this one brought many bizarre feelings.
I hope to have completed some further study, be working in a new role – hopefully closer to home. Be able to be a great mum, with time for my kids, and have completed a 10km fun run by then.
On another note, looking at all the ages below, I feel quite old. Didn’t realise I was outside mamamia’s demographics…
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I’ll be 43…and my kids will be 12 and 16, scary! I hope to have found a wonderful man who will love me for me and we will be enjoying our lives together. Mum will be 74 and Dad 70, hope they will still be healthy and happy traveling the world and enjoying their grand kids.
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I will be 40! And although that scares the hell out of me, I just realised that both my kids will be at school (they will be 8 and 5 and a half) and if I am still working part-time I will have a bit of “me time” again. So as much as I love my kids, that last bit sounds delightful.
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I will be 40 with a healthy, happy family my husband and my 3 year old. My parents will be in good health too.Hopefully my husband and I will have found new careers that are enjoyable and pays the bills and leave us free time to relax, volunteer and be outside enjoying Sunshine…oh and I want a sustainable house and a vege patch and somewhere to call home. Jaysus i better hop to it there’s a lot to achieve!
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I will be 32. I will have finished my undergraduate, and hopefully back working on my PHD, and hopefully that will be overseas – I have my heart set on the US, but it’s kind of going to be a toss of the coin.
Sadly I honestly think that there will be no man and no kids in that time, but I’m coming to terms with that.
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Eep – 33.
My wish – settled, content and healthier than ever, with my man by my side.
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I will be 36. Hopefully I will have met a great man and have started or about to start a family together.
If not, I will keep on being my awesome single self!
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I will be 27 in 4 years time. Hopefully I would’ve bought my first home by then, and/or be living and working in America.
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i would be 18, hmm this is a hard question, in 4 years, i would love to collect all of the money i could find and send it to chariety, i have always wanted to do that, but im only a teen so i have no money, and plus i dont know when im older because i like need the money for like a house and everything you need when youre older, but otherwise in 2016 i would want to be in like a hospital for like kids that have cancer and then give them all the money i owned!!!
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Ill be 31 and hopefully have started or be starting a family by then! Im hoping my online accessories business (www.somersaultstyle.com – shameless plug!) will be my main source of income and be successful enough for me to do that as a job full time. We will have finished building our house and hopefully be happy living in it and be looking to enjoy family life together
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I will be 24. Hopefully finished the degree I will start in Feb, and not have stopped half way through like my first one. I will be in Rio for the Olympics, would love to be competing but I think I’m too old for that now haha. That’s all my plans, anything else that happens is just a bonus
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I will be 24, hopefully living in Europe and travelling back to Australia to see family. Hopefully I will have decided what to do career wise.. I can’t keep doing admin jobs for the rest of my life- and I will have done an Journalism course!
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I’ll be 26, hopefully happily married (I recently got engaged) and with a baby or two. I was watching the closing ceremony on Monday morning, thinking that this would probably be my last Olympics as an unmarried, childless person! Scary shit.
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I will be 22.
and most definitely be in Rio for the olympics!
hopefully i will have finished my degree!
travelling, maybe with a guy
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I will be 31, my son will be 5 and a half…..
big dreams – would be getting close to buying our next (bigger!!) house, i would love to have 2 more kids (or maybe be pregnant with a third).
most importantly i hope we are all healthy and happy, and i hope we have both our beautiful dogs safe at home with us (one of my dogs somehow got out of the yard just before dark this evening while we we were down at coles getting a few things, and is still missing, he has never escaped before, i have been driving the streets frantically while my husband searched on foot but to no avail, i am feeling helpless and sick with worry now, passing time making up missing posters and impatient for daylight so i can start searching again :’( i just want him home lying in front of the fire where he belongs)
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In 2016 me and my husband will be 37! Eekk kids will be 11,9, 6 and 4 ( bub arriving in 5 weeks) so step daughter will be in her last year of primary school miss 9 will be living breathing dance the way she is going so I might be a crazed broke dance mum,jacob will be in full time pre primary and it will bubs last year at home before school starts. So i hope I have some idea of a new career or at least studying. Hubby too be secure in a new job, hope too have a great family holiday before miss 11 starts High school and hopefully in anew house we built
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In 2016 I’ll be 26… My postgrad law degree will be over (thank GOD) and hopefully I’ll be working at the DPP or Crown Solicitor’s office, since at 22 I am still naive and idealistic
Ideally I will have married my current partner (who will be 33!) and been honeymooning on some Greek islands… And while I think 26 is a little young for kids, I probably wouldn’t try that hard to avoid having one either..!
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Hm very interesting. I will be 34, my daughters 8 and 5. I don’t have any big plans, just hoping to stay healthy and happy with hubby and our family.
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I’ll be 29. I’ll have my shit together by then, right?
I was 13 when the Sydney games were on – still one of my favourite memories, going to so many events & soaking up the atmosphere. Ian Thorpe was 17 and racking up gold medals by the day. I did my calculations and figured that I’d definitely get at least one medal in Athens – I mean I always went to the regional swimming carnival so I’d qualify for the Olympics, right?
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I hope to be in my last year of medical school at 27! Pray for me! But who knows where I’ll be, life is unpredictable
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I’ll be 29 and hopefully excited (not scared) about entering my thirties. I’ll know whether I’m right in thinking that my current boyfriend could be “the one”. Hey, he might even be my fiance or even husband by then!
I hope I’ll have made some progress up the chain in my career, and I hope I still have time for other interests like I do now. I hope to have been on a big trip to Europe and the US.
And of course, hopefully I’ll have (permanently) lost 5kgs!!
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I will be almost 25 and, by that time, will hopefully have been an admitted lawyer for 2 years (okay, now that’s scary)
Hopefully I will have seen a bit more of the world by then, be a little more settled, maybe finally time for a long term boyfriend but I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it
If none of that turns out, screw it! I’m sure I’ll be enjoying life regardless
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I’ll be 27- hopefully my career will have made some serious progress and the love story will hopefully write itself over the next few years!
I remember during the 2000 olympics I was panicking about how I’d be ‘so old’ when the next olympics were on in 2004 and I was 15. Hilarious.
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I love reading everyone’s comments!
I’ll be 24 turning 25. That’s sooo old!
I hope by then I will have completed my PhD and be a working Historian/Anthropologist/Archaeologist. But I would also love to be a published author. MamaMia you may want to hire me now, I’m going to be big. Just putting that out there…
I will have travelled at least a little bit more of the world and I really hope that I’ve met the man of my dreams by 2016. Maybe we’ll take a trip to Rio for the games!
Although, as long as I’m happy and healthy in 4 years time, I won’t be complaining.
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“That’s sooo old!” lol It really isn’t Bridget, but I know at 20 it must seem that way.
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I will be 27, my partner will be 30 (wow!)
Hopefully we will have at least 1 child, but preferably 2 as we are talking about trying for our first towards the end of next year.
Hopefully we have a beautiful family home in the suburb that we are dreaming of. I hope that my family and friends are healthy and that I still have both my parents.
Most of all I hope my partner and I still love and care for each other as deeply as we do today…. I can’t imagine my life without him in it
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Sheesh 47 with an 18 year old boy and a 12 year old girl. I think I’ll skip that year thanks.
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I realised yesterday that I was in year 12 during the Seoul Olympics and my daughter has been in year 12 during the London games.
By Rio, all my children will be out of school. They will be 22, 21 and 18. I will be 45, husband will be 48.
I cant imagine life free of school fees, but look forward to it so much.
Mostly I hope the next 4 years for my children are navigated with safety, with happiness and most importantly good health both physically and mentally. I hope the oldest two have made it through the final teen years with enough resilience and wisdom to get them through the relationships of their early twenties and I hope my youngest son, does his best in his final years of school, is safe on the roads (like his brother and sister) and they all still have their Grandparents and loved ones to turn to.
I hope that the gap between wealthy people and the disadvantaged narrows, but if it doesnt, I hope that those with the means can help those who dont have them. Not necessarily just with money, but with time and kindness.
Also, front page of Who magazine sometime in the next 4 years “George Clooney heartbroken after passionate but short affair with Aussie mother of 3″
Poor George.
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In four years I will be graduating high school !!
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Hopefully travelled Europe, Asia and USA by then and ready to settle down with a wonderful man. Sigh the ideal life haha!
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I will have an 18 year old, a 16.5 year old, and a 13 year old. And I’ll be 41 about to turn 42.
I am trying to not freak out about that, I plan on being heaps more independent and doing more single women traveling when the kids go to their Dad’s. Life is a blessing, and I think it’s important to remember age is just a number!!!
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I will be 40 husband 44- kids will be 10 and 9. I hope love and happiness is as present in our family life then as it is now. We will be on the cusp of paying big fat school fees the year after, so it is my completely materialistic wish that I have a ensuite bathroom by then and dont have to share they joys of having 1000 various pieces of plastic crap and soggy facewashers sharing the same shower floor as me. i would love to have had an excuse to revist London by then too.
On a deeper note parents will be well and truely ensconsed into their late 70′s so my greatest wish is that they are still a part of our life.
I would like to have my name on the front of a book and a swag of cool creative credits under my belt. I also wish for that belt to be around a fit foxy and slim waist!!
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Alive, well, employed and smiling
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I’ll be 32. I’ve no idea where I’ll be, but I’ll hopefully be doing something amazing with someone I love.
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I’ve been struggling with what to write on this one ALL DAY. But I love your comment ozinuk, so I’m stealing it. I’ll be 30 an hope for exactly the same thing. xx
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Awwww, thanks Jam Jam. xx
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I’ll be 46 and my husband 52 (yikes). My children will be 18 an 15. I wish to be still happily married, our children to have made the most of the gifts they have been given and for our parents and family to be in good health. Every day is a blessing. I’ll just try to take it one at a time. Apart from that, I’ll be thrilled if I’ve lost 20 kilos and a become independently wealthy!
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Thats a really cool one – you sound like a lovely person.
I am loving these wishlists way to much – they are a really fascinating insight to what makes us tick!
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I’ll be 43, our newborn will be four and our big boy, six. We’ll know whether or not we decided to have a third, and our baby says will be over (makes me sad just to think if it). I’ll be back at work and if my job hasn’t improved I’ll be working in my own practice. I can hardly imagine it. But then looking back four years to the last Olympics when we were childless and newly engaged and I was preparing to walk the Camino, it seems like a different life.
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wow, I will be 30 in time for the next olympics, I hope to be married to the man i’ve been with for the past 8 years and a mother to at least 1 baby with plans for another. An overseas holiday between now and then would be great too.
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Ill be in my late 40s….. Maybe a grandmother, if the oldest continues as she is now. My kids will be 28, 25, 15 and 12. Hopefully we’ll only have 2 left at home and will be working towards downsizing.
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I’ll be 32 and my boy wonder will be almost eight. What the actual hell!?
Eight!
I want to be finished my degree, and a masters if I can. In a house that isn’t a rental, and having quit the job I’m in right now to do something I enjoy.
Mostly though I just hope that in four years, my family and I are still healthy and happy.
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I’ll be 74 and hopefully as fit and healthy as I am now. Should be lifting, swinging and pressing 16kg Kettlebells by then. Wish I’d seen the Spice girls perform at the Closing ceremony as I thought the rest of the show was dire, to say the least.
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I’ll be 34 and my now little baby will be 4. Hopefully by then he will have little brother or sister. My husband will finish Chartered Financial Analyst course and work in commodities which he loves so much. Currently I am in the best place I’ve ever been in my life watching my beautiful little boy grow .Fingers cross it will stay like that for the next 4 years.
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Holy baby cheeses I’ll be THIRTY.
I hope to be a home owner, with a nice savings account and some investments. And have traveled to at least two more continents. And be in a job that I love doing. And be at Rio for the Olympics. And be healthy, and all my loved ones be happy and healthy. Including my cat, who will be twelve.
And have really great hair, obviously.
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Nailed it MJ. I will be 31 – sheesh – but I’d wish for pretty much that, plus our family cat will be 19 if she makes it!
I was lucky enough to be here for London 2012 and the vibe was amazing so I am deffo looking to Rio. Big time.
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My kids will be 9 and 5. I will be almost 40 and finally running a successful business and having the opportunity to travel….to Rio
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I’ll be 27 (almost 28). I will have travelled to the US and hopefully Europe again. I will be working in the book publishing industry and hopefully be a little past entry level. I will have graduated from my Masters degree and relishing that I am never.studying.again. I will be living interstate and well on my way to a house deposit, if not there. I will be looking after my body and in the best shape of my life.
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I will be 38. Wow that feels so old right now. My youngest will be in grade 3 which is just about impossible for me to imagine at this stage. But so long as my beautiful family are still happy and healthy, then I will be content.
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I will be 32 and hopefuly the Wife and I will have 1 maybe 2 kids, cant wait.
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