If I could go back in time, I’d go back to when I was seventeen. To when I started hanging out with wrong company, when I started beating curfews, when I started tasting gin, and when I started dating the type of guys whose love is defined by the phrase “If you love me then…”
If I could go back in time, I’d go back to when I was eighteen. To when I started cutting classes in the university when depressed, when I started trying to smoke to be cool, when I started not just tasting other kinds of liquor but also drinking beer and punch with quote unquote friends. To when I learned that I cannot be easily drunk and that it takes a strong man to beat me in drinking. To when I was not really proud of drinking but still do because I wanted to belong and be part of something. To when I felt like a big mistake in the face of what is called friendship. To when I felt like a big joke to what is called love.
If I could go back in time, I’d go back to when I was nineteen. To when I learned how to misuse money, when I learned that some of my company wants to be with me only when they need something from me, when I’d rather be going out instead of reading Tolstoy and Cervantes all for the sake of having fun. To when life has no meaning for a young adult striving to be someone in a world defined by some as chaotic, dysfunctional, unfair and crazy.
I wish I could turn back time, I’ll undo the things I shouldn’t have done and do the things I should have. If only I could.
The way I see life now is different from how I view it when I was younger. I am still young. And I still have way to go to be more matured. But the mistakes I did in the past remains. I cannot change them. But I have learned from them. And I thank the Lord because He found me and never let me go.
If there’s one thing I could tell my seventeen year old self, it would be: Don’t find love in the street, it is already at home.
If there’s one thing I could tell my eighteen year old self, it would be: Stop chasing things that won’t last, but enjoy running after the things you already know will impact your life for the longest of time.
If there’s one thing I could tell my nineteen year old self, it would be: Wisdom cannot be bought. You have to search it in the right place.
In ECCLESIASTES 12:1 you will read “Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth…” I don’t want my son to grow up doing the wrong things and making the wrong decisions. I want him to enjoy each and every day of his precious life glorifying God.
We do not really have to always commit mistakes to learn. Like I we don’t have to acquire STDs to know that fornication is wrong. We can learn from others’ mistakes. And that is enough.
Enjoying youth does not mean you can do whatever you please even to the point of going beyond what’s right and safe. Enjoying youth does not mean proving you can do whatever others are able to do even when it is bad for you. Enjoying youth is living life with meaning and sense. It is living with the wisdom that can be found in God, by knowing Him through the study of His Word.
Enjoy your youth. Even when you are not anymore, you can still be youthful. In the time of the patriarchs, youth’s age is up to 40. So hey, enjoy each moment. Honor God!
If I could go back in time, I’d go back to when I was eighteen. To when I started cutting classes in the university when depressed, when I started trying to smoke to be cool, when I started not just tasting other kinds of liquor but also drinking beer and punch with quote unquote friends. To when I learned that I cannot be easily drunk and that it takes a strong man to beat me in drinking. To when I was not really proud of drinking but still do because I wanted to belong and be part of something. To when I felt like a big mistake in the face of what is called friendship. To when I felt like a big joke to what is called love.
If I could go back in time, I’d go back to when I was nineteen. To when I learned how to misuse money, when I learned that some of my company wants to be with me only when they need something from me, when I’d rather be going out instead of reading Tolstoy and Cervantes all for the sake of having fun. To when life has no meaning for a young adult striving to be someone in a world defined by some as chaotic, dysfunctional, unfair and crazy.
I wish I could turn back time, I’ll undo the things I shouldn’t have done and do the things I should have. If only I could.
The way I see life now is different from how I view it when I was younger. I am still young. And I still have way to go to be more matured. But the mistakes I did in the past remains. I cannot change them. But I have learned from them. And I thank the Lord because He found me and never let me go.
If there’s one thing I could tell my seventeen year old self, it would be: Don’t find love in the street, it is already at home.
If there’s one thing I could tell my eighteen year old self, it would be: Stop chasing things that won’t last, but enjoy running after the things you already know will impact your life for the longest of time.
If there’s one thing I could tell my nineteen year old self, it would be: Wisdom cannot be bought. You have to search it in the right place.
In ECCLESIASTES 12:1 you will read “Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth…” I don’t want my son to grow up doing the wrong things and making the wrong decisions. I want him to enjoy each and every day of his precious life glorifying God.
We do not really have to always commit mistakes to learn. Like I we don’t have to acquire STDs to know that fornication is wrong. We can learn from others’ mistakes. And that is enough.
Enjoying youth does not mean you can do whatever you please even to the point of going beyond what’s right and safe. Enjoying youth does not mean proving you can do whatever others are able to do even when it is bad for you. Enjoying youth is living life with meaning and sense. It is living with the wisdom that can be found in God, by knowing Him through the study of His Word.
Enjoy your youth. Even when you are not anymore, you can still be youthful. In the time of the patriarchs, youth’s age is up to 40. So hey, enjoy each moment. Honor God!