A letter to a younger version of myself

Hi and welcome to my blog. I’m super excited to write about this topic because it’s something I’ve always thought about and I’m sure you have too.

We all remember our childhood memories, some great, some not so great and one way or the other we have tried to imagine what it would feel like to meet the younger version of ourselves, many of us wish we could turn back the hands of time to correct some silly things we did or just to make a different choice.

I for one want to go back and yell “Don’t engage in those rough plays(to avoid the wounds on my knees, lol) but this is life, once a moment is gone, it is gone, all you’re left with are memories.

A brief letter to a younger version of myself.

I took out time to ask some of my friends about the topic above and here are some of their interesting messages.

I observed, one of the major things we all want to tell a younger version of ourselves is to either quit doing something or start doing a thing. Majority of us would like to advice the mini version not to venture into some toxic habits, not to worry so much about the future. The beautiful thing is we can still make those corrections now(ps: my knee wounds have cleared off lol). We can start working on our hearts, our character, our mindset, we can start putting things in order.

Like the saying goes, Life is too short to be unhappy, I’m saying Life is too long to be the least version of yourself.

Big S/O to Nicky, Victoria, Shalom, Omoloize and Evelyn. Thank you so much for your input and yes, to all my lovely readers, thank you for the feedbacks and comments and shares. YouRock! As always,

Aj loves you💕

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Fashion&hairstylesSaturday, September 11, 2021
Nice one 🥰👍
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Evelyn IkogbaSaturday, September 11, 2021
Aww, this was so beautiful to read. Well-done girl.
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DanielSunday, September 12, 2021
I really enjoyed it..made me wonder what I'd tell my younger self
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OmoloizeSunday, September 12, 2021
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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UnknownSunday, September 12, 2021
This is great, its just so straight to the point and not boring
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Peter joshSunday, September 12, 2021
Wow,nice.hw I wish I could go back in time and erase some mistakes.but the future has already been forge.nice one AJ.totally love it 🥰
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