Steemit Engagement Challenge - S3W4 / The Past Machine by @temitopef

Good day dear Steemians, it is a privilege to be here at this moment of the day and join the contest organized by this community for Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 3. The topic of the contest is "The Past Machine". We were told to explain just one thing we did wrong or ought to do in the past and the approach we would take to ensure we did it the right way if we are allowed to visit the past to rectify it.

In life we cannot eat our cake and have it back, had it been we can all visit our past, we could have rectify our mistake, there are things we have done or things we ought to do but we neglected because of one reason or the other, and it always make us sad whenever we remember it, and we wish we could turn back the hand of time and do it the way it is supposed to be done.

Now it is left in our past and it serves as a lesson and experience for us so that we would not make the same mistake again and also we could advise other people through our mistake so that they also can learn from our past and take the right step. Today I would be telling you about my past mistake and how I would rectify the mistake if I were given the opportunity.

If I'm given this opportunity to go back I would go to the year that I wrote Join Admissions and Matriculation Board (Jamb) exams, I obtained post Jamb form but did not go for the post jamb exam. This year is something I can never forget because I give up so easily without doing proper finding and only allowed someone's words to discourage me. Remembering the incident now always make me feel sad because I believed in another person's words so easily.

I would travel to the year 2012, this is a year when I wrote Jamb and chose Ladoke Akintola University as my first and second choice to study nursing. After writing Jamb, I passed and I was supposed to write post Jamb, I obtained the post jamb form, registered, and was preparing ahead of the day for the exam only for one of my relatives to discourage me and my mom that the school fee is much and there is no way my mother would be able to afford the fee.

We were told the school fee alone is #150,000 and hearing that made my mom sad because truly she cannot afford such, we did not have a good phone to access the internet at that time, we believed what the person said totally since he is learned, seeing my mom sad was not something I want so I decided that I would not write the exam because I know that if I pass, and my mother is not able to get the money she would become more unhappy.

And that was how I ended up not writing the exam and later enrolled to the college, it was after I graduated from the college and started working that I met a student of the school that I realized their fee is not expensive at all, it was just like #10,000 higher than my college fee. I felt so sad but there was nothing I could do about it again because it happened some years ago.

If I am opportune to travel back to the past, I would love to change some things which Include:

Doing proper Research: I would do my findings about the school fee and not listen to my relatives that advised me and my mom wrongly just because he doesn't want to help us with the fee.

Go for the Exam: Even after advising about the fee, I would still go for the exam and sees it as part of my experience because I have paid for it already and doing it will not cost me much aside from my transport fare.

Keep my Faith Strong in God for Help: I would not allow any advice to change my mind rather I would hold on to my faith in God that He would surely provide for my school fee and I shall not be put to shame.

Past are passed because it was left in our yesterday but it was left fresh in our memories so that we would learn from it and make the right decision whenever we encounter such again and advise people experiencing such situations as ours.

Furthermore, from my own experience, I learned to always do proper findings, not make rash decisions due to my emotion, and put my faith and total trust in God because He is the great helper that we ever need in this life.

This is my past mistake, I learned greatly from it and since then I'm never giving up on whatever I want again no matter how big the obstacle on my way is. This is where I will be stopping for today, thank you so much for reading.

I invite @msquaretk, @beautybb, and @ebunoluwani to participate in this contest, with a 25% Beneficiary Set to @null.