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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Eyad
11/4/2022 01:45:05 pm
This was super interesting and very relateable, it's inspiring to see you get back on the path you wanted to be on from the start.
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Clare Bach
11/4/2022 01:46:43 pm
This is extremely relatable. Life as a child seems so simple, the world seems so big, and that does start to change as you get older. It is very mature that you decided to make a change in your life, and continued to be the best version of yourself.
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Lina
11/4/2022 01:47:06 pm
I really liked this blog. I agree with you our childhood is a really important part of our lives and like you I like to look back at those days and I miss them sometimes.
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Amelia Holifield
11/4/2022 01:48:01 pm
I really liked your blog.I think you did a very good job of portraying your subject. I think it is also inspiring on how you changed and got your self in to a better place with school, friends and family. Thank you for sharing
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Sunsia
11/4/2022 01:50:34 pm
I also think that thinking about how you were in your childhood is important because everyone experiences a slump, even for the things they used to enjoy doing. The best way to get out of that slump and get back on track is, as you mentioned to come back to your old self and reflect how you were prior to the slump.
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Paula
11/4/2022 01:51:48 pm
it is a very nice blog about something I definitely can relate on. It can be very hard to find your priorities as a teenager.
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Anooj
11/4/2022 01:53:15 pm
I think this is the blog I resonate with the most out of all of the ones we’ve seen so far. You conveyed the topic of this blog to us very well and really shed some light on how many of us think.
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Aimée
11/4/2022 01:53:38 pm
What a nice way to look at the life. I really liked the way how you described your experiences. I think you chose a really healthy way to live your life! It actually inspires me to reflect my own habits and way of living. Maybe there is something of the childhood I want to keep in my present life?!
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Luis
11/4/2022 01:57:03 pm
I enjoyed a lot your blog because you told it from your personal perspective and you were really open to share all the points of view even though they didn't benefit you.
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olivia
11/4/2022 01:57:33 pm
This was very well written,i was able to relate to this quite a bit. i do believe our childhood truly affects our personality and some of our behaviour too. i really liked the very last sentence.
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Quinn
11/4/2022 02:00:18 pm
I’m glad you were able to take the initiative to make a change in your life. I agree your childhood definitely does shape a lot of who you are through what you were exposed to and different experiences. I liked that you shared about your challenges of finding yourself. Thanks for sharing Konstantin!
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anna
11/4/2022 02:04:10 pm
I relate to this and have gone through something similar so its nice to see than I'm not alone. Its great that you've found ways to get back to be your old self.
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Gurleen
11/4/2022 02:07:05 pm
This was very relatable. Its comforting too see that other people also go through this.
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Eunseo
11/4/2022 02:07:41 pm
I really liked your blog! I really agree that childhood is very important and meaningful in our life. and also I love your advice too!
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I really appreciate this blog, because I totally agree, I do think childhood has a big impact on who you are, and who you will be when you are older. I love that at such a young age you took initiative, because you knew you hard worked so hard already, so it was poor decision to give up.
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