Date: Sunday, 7th of November, 2021
Published by: GreatwolfmanThere are certain things if given the chance you would want to change. I have given this a lot of thought in my previous articles on I wish, and time-traveling but I still don't feel like I've done justice to it. A lot has happened since I wrote those articles and I have grown too as life continues to dish out lessons.
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I spent most of my time growing up behind my room door when my close friends were not around. I would bury myself in comics and other books and would often imagine myself being one of the major characters in the book. I enjoyed every minute of it but it had its disadvantages.
Human beings are social beings, we do not live alone and often need to interact with other people, a skill I lacked due to limited exposure. People often took my silence as a sign of stupidity and would often try to make me that way in front of everyone and I still wouldn't say anything to defend myself. I could care less what people thought about me after all.
Getting admission into High School became a challenge when I was forced into scenarios where I would be called out to answer a question and even though I knew the answers I wouldn't be able to say it out loud due to what I would refer to as "anxiety-attacks".
This also happened whenever a girl approached me, I would be so shy and uncomfortable as I try to look for ways to awkwardly avoid any interactions. Yes, I was that weird kid.
It did get better with time after putting in a lot of effort over the year but still not as good as I hope.
Fortunately, I'm on the path to a profession that will give me even more exposure and force me to learn to be more social. If I had a second chance, I would change that aspect of myself and try to be more social.
I would have been active in read.cash the first time I heard about it
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My profile will show I joined this platform five months ago but that wasn't the case. I did register without even realizing it and I also had trouble navigating my way through it that I just abandoned it and took it as a waste of time.
Months passed by and I saw more of my friends taking it seriously, I remember when @King_Gozie and @Gaftekloriginal took up their phone in class to register under the supervision of @HappyBoy . It could have also been me and I showed interest for a while before brushing it off, a big mistake, I know that now.
Just like the mistakes most newbies make, I failed to read the instruction from the admin and just went on to write articles. I wasn't following anyone and would often get visits from my friends. I would look at what they had earned from writing their articles and will compare it to mine. I was puzzled as to why I wasn't earning as much, I thought I needed to write even longer articles and I did but still no difference, eventually I stopped and lost interest again.
Weeks passed and I decided to give it one more try as I was feeling down and needed to let it all out. In the past, I would use my voice recorder to say exactly how I feel and still didn't feel better as I did when I wrote it out.
I started getting visits from Rusty even though I was barely following anyone or giving upvotes or even dropping comments on writers' articles, a big thanks to HappyBoy for pointing out my mistakes.
I was never good at writing and I'm still learning but over the months I have gotten considerably better thanks to the awesome articles from other writers here. I learned a very important lesson
"it's never too late to start, it's never too late learning, and more importantly, when the opportunity comes your way, seize it".
If I had one more chance, I wouldn't postpone and just get right to it.
I would play with my dog again
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I guess this will always be there. Recently I lost my dog, he had been with the family for a very long time and his death left a void that won't be filled anytime soon. I think back to the moment before he died and I regret all the time I had to play with him that I didn't. I know death is inevitable, everything that lives, dies but what I wouldn't give to pet him again.
There are still some things, if given the chance to change anything, you will leave them just the way they are because those slight imperfections are what make the whole experience unique. My first crush, my first heartbreak, meeting the love of my life, my biggest failure, my near-death experiences, and many more that have brought me to where I am today, I wouldn't change anything about them because, without them, I wouldn't be me.
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Very inspiring article. Just like me, I always wonder why Im earning not that much than other users here. I still don't understand why. I do leave comments to some articles I have read and which caught my attention. I created a new acc but still the same. I don't know what I have missed. Can you help me understand why is that? I mean I'm not good writing too but I'm trying hehe