Things I did that I find Childish now//Hive-Reachout weekly prompt 38.

As we get matured in life, our level of thought, reasoning, behaviour, thinking and way we do things change. Our ability to think deeply, handles situations properly, manage our emotions, taking responsibilities for our actions and even the way we talk and communicate with others is influenced by the level of our maturity.

Hello Hive fam👋👋!!!! Welcome once again to my blog, hope you are doing great? I’m delighted to share with you my experience on the Hive-Reachout weekly prompt topic “Things you did that you find childish now”

First of all, I will like to appreciate the admin @ovey10 for the opportunity giving to me and for the hard work his putting on this platform behind the scene.

Maturity is not measured by the age of a person nor by the physical structure and status but by how you are able to navigate through situations, how you handle issues, your level of reasoning, your behaviours and attitude.

As I reflect back through some of the things I’ve done in the past, I tend to laugh at them and sometimes feel embarrass because if I’m ask to do some of those things I did then, even if there are memorable and exciting, I wouldn't want to do them again.

A couple of things I’ve done in the pass that looks childish to me now include:

Obsession for Christmas wears: Disturbing my parents for Christmas clothes, shoes when Christmas is approaching is something that has being a part of me when I was little. I used to remind my parents every last week of November that Christmas is next month oh, they should start thinking of buying my Christmas wears. Second week of December, if they didn’t buy it for me, my dramatic nature will start. I will be giving everybody attitude in the house, even when you talk to me, I won’t answer you properly. The worse of all is seeing my peers discussing the kind of clothes their parent bought for the, the rubber wrist watch, the googles and shoes and my parent are yet to buy mine, there’s going to be an issue. I will come home and start crying and begin to say things like “you don’t want to buy me Christmas clothes, look at this person parent, they bought him this and that but you didn’t buy me anything. That day, to eat will be a problem.
During Christmas day like this, I and my friends will gather in one place and start thinking and making preparation to go house by house asking for Happy Christmas. If you give us food or chin chin, we may say thank you and not collect it, what we want was give us money if we ask you for Happy Christmas. We don’t know anything like Merry Christmas then, what we say is Happy Christmas and we must go out. But now I can’t do those things again. I do sleep at home on Christmas day now, may be later in the evening, I’ll take myself out. I don’t budget or border myself for Christmas preparations again.

Love: My first love was in primary school and I don’t really consider that real or romantic love, I see it as playful love or childish love. There was a garden at the part to my school, each time I’m coming home from school, I make sure I plug a flower from the garden, those beautiful sun flowers we see around. I will plug it and bring it home for her. The exciting part is when we are writing love letter to each other. The letter will always have a title and a love symbol on it. I will write title like “To my love, kiss it before you open it.

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(Sample of how I use to write letter)

Why I use red pen to write was because red pen was a symbol of blood which means I’m using my blood to write the letter to measure the intensity of the love🤣🤣🤣. The 10 naira, 20 naira my parents will give me for break in school, I will keep it to come home and buy biscuit or milk candy for her. Love was sweet that year oh. There are times if I return from school and she is yet to come back, I will go back to the part where she use to pass and come home, then wait for her there until she comes. Peradventure we didn’t see each other that day, it will look like and an eternity.

Funny enough this love thing may also make you do things childishly even when you are matured. There was something I did when an issue transpired between me and one of my ex-girlfriend and we had to break up. Instead of me to live her and move on, I went to beg her to return, I even went as far as looking for the guy’s number she was dating and called him, begging him to please live my ex that I want her back and that why will he have to come in-between our relationship. Remembering that act alone make me feel very embarrass, like begging my fellow man. It was childish to me honestly. That's by the way!!

Comparison: I was the type of person that want to have what my friends are having. Anything I want, my parent should get it for me. I don’t know then that life will not always give you what you want. If I see my friends with toys, I will want to have it to and if I eventually have it, I will come meet my friends and compare it with there's. If mine is better or finer, I will be happy, but if there's is better than mine, I will go home and complain that they buy me something that is not good, look at this person own, it has this and that.

I must say that most of the pass event that have occurred in our life's create a memorable memories. As we reflect on them, we tend to see the difference between now and then. Thanks for spearing time to read my post..

God Bless 🙏
Joash