Correcting a mistake from the past.

Having ten minutes to go back and make an amendment from the past is something I would love, it looks very easy to quickly travel to amend just one thing if it is possible to travel back in time but it is difficult to choose from the long list of things I would have loved to fix from the past.

It was the beginning of a new week when I got a notification from one of the blogging community I engage on that the newly built time machine by the community scientist and engineers needs to be tested to be sure if the invention was a success. The first test was good since  @Princessbusayo traveled to the future and return safely through the machine, she came back with the news about what the world and cryptocurrency would look like in the future, she kept some things a secret because they were personal.

(She mentioned a few coins that pumped by over %1k, you can ask her about the coins for yourself.)

We are certain about traveling to the future and now, we are going to test going to the past and some members are showing interest so we have decided to give everyone a chance to go back to the past for just 10 minutes to amend an error they made from the past.

To select whoever will go to the past, we all need to convince the community that we are worthy of the trip. - Community admin

This was an excellent opportunity for me to go back in time to do a lot of things but the time isn't enough so I have to pick one out of the most important things which might be considered by the community and earn me a ticket to the past.

I had to put a lot of things into consideration, my relationship life, my family, my career, finance, and many other things. It was tough but I was able to single one out, it was a simple act of disobedience that I wish I could go back to amend which could have changed my life for good.

I played a lot of football growing up, I played on the street and couldn't count the number of times I was punished for it. I had so much passion for football and I saw myself doing it internationally someday, I have written about why I stopped football due to injury but I didn't mention how disobedience ended my football dreams.

We were preparing for a football audition organized by an international club back then, we were eager to showcase our talents. We were going to the field from time to time just to keep our form intact and in the process of preparing, I got injured badly. It was so bad that I had to stay away from football for some time and when I felt okay to return, it was difficult to do some things.

On that day, my mom warned me not to play football because she dreamt I was injured. She had such a dream when I was very little and it happened despite locking me at home that day, I tore my lower lip while jumping at home.

That day, I was disobedient and broke a bone. It was the end of my football career because I was grounded for up to 3 months and before the big injury, I have broken my smallest toe, torn my leg palm, and had many minor injuries. I was warned about getting more injuries then.

I was prone to injury because I played as a striker and we play on bad grounds for the love of the game. I have so much faith that football could have turned my life around, I wasn't very sure but I could have possibly been one of the good players out there today.

Ten minutes is too much to tell my younger self not to disobey my mom on that day and probably my story could be different.

I could have gone for the audition, probably got lucky like some of my mates, and fulfilling my dreams by now.

Few of my friends then made it to Europe through football even though they aren't famous and some played in other Africa countries, I didn't know what the future held for me with football and I would have been eager to know but been disobedient changed it all.

Disobedience is one of the common habits among humans and it has affected us in one way or the other, there are times we feel like our parent's warnings are mere threats not knowing that they know and understand a lot of things better than we do.

It is when we see the aftermath of the things we were warned about we then understand that they said a lot of things to protect us.

Luckily for some people, they were able to get over the consequences of their disobedience while some got stuck in it forever. Not all advice can be taken but we must take time to consider all this advice carefully to avoid regrets in the future.

Feel free to share with you us one thing you will love to travel back in time to change.

This article was written by me and first appeared as a contest entry on Hive.

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