A topic I could speak every second about, my friends can confirm, is “childhood“. So to give you a clue why I love this topic, I’m generally aware of the importance of childhood. It is the base of your character and your personality. You will probably always have a special connection to the people you grew up with. Your parents, a good friend or other family member. In your childhood, you gain your first experiences and your main memories build up. In some cases your childhood shows the direction your life will take, you find out which hobby’s you like the most and your character traits show. Well I guess we all can agree that we aren’t fix individual personalities after our childhood, we find out other things we like or where we are passionate about. It can also happen that we are completely different to our younger selves, which is totally important and ok in my opinion. When I went to preschool and to kindergarten I was a very active child. My plan all day was to play soccer and be outside with my friends. I also loved to do things with my parents and my family. For example, play board games or go on trips. I did my homework and my tasks on time and straight. I was happy about who I was and what I made in my freetime. This life spirit kind of changed when I came into High School. High school starts with the 5th class in Germany so I was 10-11 years old. I didn’t want to do all this annoying school stuff and a voice in my head told me, I won’t need it later in my life so just relax in school and come home and enjoy your life. Well that is an attractive offer for a young boy, who got his PS4 a year before on Christmas. So my grades became worse. In the 5th class my grades were pretty much the same as before, but one year later my grades dropped. That wasn’t the only big change, I also didn’t have the energy to do sports in my free time anymore. Usually I spent half the day on the soccer pitch. So I wasn’t as sportive as a year ago. At that time I recognized that my parents were disappointed in me and I didn’t liked the atmosphere at home at all. Yes, that escalated quickly, you may think, but I knew I wanted to change something and today I know even to recognize it, is often the hardest part of it. I asked myself if this is the Konstantin I know and when one of my best friends, who I have known since I‘m three years old, told me what is going on with you, you are not yourself. I kind of had the urge to change again. It gave me confidence that my friends and my family actually knew differently from me. I decided to look back and started to act like the old Konstantin, because I knew I wanted to be different than at the moment. And it worked, nowadays it is just a bad short period of my life and I‘m happy with myself. My grades are good, I do much more with my family and one of the main things in my life is to be sportive and healthy. It even went so far that I stopped eating candies and I specifically tried to do more Sport and to take every opportunity to work on. To think back to my childhood, also helps me when I realize that I use my phone too much. My inner voice pops up and asks for the actual reason, why I’m on Insta and not outside with friends. So my advice for you is, that your older self can help you to change when you don’t feel good about your current situation. A few friends of mine disagreed with me, because for them you always have to improve, always the next step and in their opinion it‘s bad to keep behaviors.
However, I guess everyone has their own truth, mine is to have a good mix of experiences from the past and the curiosity about the future. Konstantin B
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