De-aging to correct my past; a risk I am not ready to take.
Our life is bound to imperfections and I have many times wondered what things would look like if life was perfect for everyone. All the mistakes we made while growing up were meant to happen, we learn lessons that will be needed later in life after those mistakes, and applying them in the future will only help us avoid making the same mistake.
Going back in time will be great but what if I don't have the memory from the future, it would turn out to be that I only went back to the age for nothing because as the imperfect being that I am, there are higher chances of making those mistakes again.
I was younger and had just a little understanding of life, all the mistakes I made gave me the little understanding that I have today. Back then, I approached things based on my understanding, and returning to a particular age might not make a difference.
The smaller opportunities I missed back have made me take even the smallest opportunity seriously now because I learned that some opportunities do not come twice in life.
I have a fifteen years old boy on my street who I introduced Hive to because he is brilliant, I went to the extent of promising him data just to make him take things seriously but he didn't even bother checking the platform out. I discovered his new hobby is football games and he spends 4-5 hours every day playing Dream League Soccer without getting anything.
I don't blame him because a fifteen years old me wouldn't have taken Hive seriously back then except if either of my parents imposed it on me.
Did anyone teach me to take Blockchain blogging seriously? The answer is no because I wasn't fifteen when I discovered it and I saw it as an opportunity that mustn't pass me by.
Our age has a huge influence on how we process things and some of the mistakes we made while growing up were based on our understanding.
For the contest, I will love to return to when I was 14 years of age.
I attended Seventh Day Adventist then, our service holds on Saturday and I always follow my mom to church on Sunday.
I was a very active teenager in the church and it made me famous. After service on a Saturday, my pastor called me and told me about a scholarship. He wanted me and some other teenagers to apply but I didn't take it seriously. I didn't even remember to tell my mom not because I didn't want to but because there was no need to do so.
Why on Earth will I do so when my dad stays abroad and promise to take me so that I can continue my education abroad?
The time for the scholarship passed but it meant nothing to me until after a year. I didn't travel or go to school, four years passed and nothing happened.
An opportunity to go to polytechnic came up in the fifth year and I didn't let that opportunity pass me by because of my experience. It was a sad time for me because I got admission when my mates were graduating from higher institutions.
If I could return with my current knowledge, I will be very happy to make amendments but what do I know will happen after?
The admission was an opportunity for me that I failed to take but anything could have happened if I had taken the scholarship. I am not trying to be negative about it but what if I had lost my life in school or while traveling to and from school?
Anything could have happened to me so the path I have walked on is guaranteed than returning to what I do not know.
My life from age 14 to date has been full of up and down but as long as there is life, I can accomplish the goals I had at that age despite not taking the opportunities seriously back then.
What would happen after I take the opportunity is unpredictable so I don't regret the opportunities I missed and I only wish I have taken things seriously.
Returning to a certain age comes with the risk of many unknown things and I think it is a complicated decision to make.
Thanks for reading.
I'm sorry to know about what you passed through at age 14, well, life is unpredictable, we never can tell what will happen if you took the scholarship serious, but what will be will be.
Well, the time is now, finish your school late doesn't stop you from achieving what you want to achieve, there are some people that finished before you that has not accomplish anything..And with your mistakes, you have gained more experience that will guide you through your adulthood.
it's nice reading from you.
Whether we do it now or later, we should be grateful for doing it because that time we were able to do it is the right time.
Going to the past is uncertain and I think I am contended to so far.
you are right, sometimes we are too immersed in regrets in the past so we really want to go back to that time to fix everything so that it is better, but we forget what will happen next after we return to that time, will it go like now, all must be taken into account, thank you for sharing with us
We all would want the opportunity because we won't think about the negative impact of it until they begin to show themselves.
I will prefer to just continue living on than returning to the past.
Regretting too much about the past will only slow us down and prevent us from pressing forward for many reasons. Going back doesn't guarantee a better life than we have now so why do we have to take the risk?
We miss out on many opportunities in the past because we didn't take them serious, until after years, would we realize how foolish we have been not to embrace the opportunity but who knows what could happen then?
One thing we should understand is that, for everything that happens, if God wants the best for us, we would not miss, though there are times, our ignorance would come in, it doesn't mean we shouldn't learn and use it for the next step in life. In all, we should learn and add to the next journey of life.
God has made the perfect plan for our lives and we just have to trust his judgment.
No one knows tomorrow and if we choose another path in the past, the future will still be unpredictable so it's best for us to just be happy and continue living.
Well, I felt a bit bad reading how you missed the travel scholarship...but on a second read, I met this.
That is it George...the past isn't guaranteed..so let's face the future and leave the unknown 😇👌
Whenever I glance back at the past, I don't regret it because anything could have happened to me. I remembered a friend who forced his admission with the help of his parent and unfortunately, he died in a car accident at 300 level.
Some things are not meant to be in life, it doesn't stop us from trying but we shouldn't regret too much missing such opportunities.
Exactly my dear
So sorry about the boy