If you were to be given a chance now to speak to the little you what would you say to her/him, would you be tough, sweet, soft or compliment him/her. I'm sure we all have some things we would love her/him to know, There are some tough conversation we would love to have with them. Conversations that would have probably changed our mindset at that time and influenced how we would have responded to some situations.
Do you remember those nights you spent sleepless because you thought you are not good enough, because you thought you will never fit in with the rest of the world. Days when you sought other people's validation, moments when you lacked self-esteem, when you never really appreciated your self, trying hard everyday to change your personality for other people's approval.
Do you still feel like that? do other people's judgement about you still matters? I doubt that because when you grow up you learn to appreciate the skin you are in, you learn that you do not need other people's approval. When you grow up you develop self-esteem, people who do not like you don't keep you up at night anymore.
There are many mistakes we did when we were young, there are bad decisions we took thinking that we know better. Some of us were too hard on our selves while some lived in the moment, they took life light. Those who were hard on themselves, who never lived to enjoy moments, who blamed themselves for everything that happens in their lives. The hard ones are those who thought whatever happens in their lives is their responsibility. The "why did i let it happen" people.
While those who lived in the moment enjoyed life, made more mistakes. Those are the ones that put themselves out there in the world, the ones that seemed like they grew fast. These are the "I am going to seize any good moment I get"people. Both of these people we growing up learning to take life as it comes.
I know sometimes when you look back you think to you self at what right sense of my mind did I decide to do that, what was I thinking. All these moments and the stupid decisions we took we should not be ashamed of them because we were young, still trying to figure out this journey of life. Even now that we are old we are still learning, all these situation helped to groom and shape the people we are today, they helped us in realising that there is more to life, helped us to distinguish right from wrong, positive from negative.
We ought to be grateful for those moments. today we are grown we understand better and we are doing better, still making mistakes, learning , being our best and we are making sure to not repeat all the wrong decision we took when we were young. We learned from our mistakes and we took the positive and good decision we made to our adult life making them even more better. Some of the things we did not understand then make perfect sense now. Life is a journey.