I am quick to forget the taste of guilt

Sometimes I try not to sound condescending when giving an advice.

Still, people think I sound like someone that has lived long and has done several useless things in one life time— like I'm always trying to prove that I've been there, I've done that, e no pay... (Nigerian pidgin).

Anyways just so you know, I arrived this earth during the late 90s (e remain small dem for born me for the indomie generation) haha, but las las this my eyes don see wetin pass indomie😂

And truthfully, I've been there, I've had my fair share of "doings", and some of them no pay.

I am not an expert on relationships and I have never been, but I was twelve when I had my first girlfriend— in my juvenile mind then, a girlfriend meant a new deskmate, someone who would copy notes for me while listening to my jokes, and maybe sometime in the future I get married to her (yes, I was twelve and I thought of marriage)😅

We didn't get married, we broke up the next term cause then, the principal had expelled two students for being in a relationship the previous term, so I was scared and decided the whole note-copying relationship should end. 

Anyway, she was beautiful but didn't have a very beautiful handwriting (metaphor implied), although she was fast in copying notes😂

That was just one love-story-gone-wrong among several others that went wrong over the years.

A lot of my close friends meet me for some form of advice or the other, and somehow I think I always seem to have an answer.

I haven't lived up to mid twenties yet, but I think I've had my fair share of relationships, foolish mistakes, and a long list of I should have said(s) that I never said, and I should have done(s) that I never did.

And if all the tears that I'd let soak my pillow were collected, it probably might be vast enough to hold up another Titanic ship (maybe not)😂 but you get the point.

I recently made a post on Facebook with the caption, "I have PhD in letting go." 

The post does seem trivial and very funny, though I know there are a lot of people who can't seem to wake up from their mistakes and surge forward, I'm not a motivational speaker but I've learned to live happy every morning by forgetting the taste of yesterday's guilt.

Don't get me wrong, I'm also not a fan of the quote, "You've gotta get it wrong to get it right..." 

I believe you can do it the first time, and get it right. But if you get it wrong, dust yourself and keep walking...

I'll end with this line from Paul's letter to the Philippians, "I don’t depend on my own strength to accomplish this; however I do have one compelling focus: I forget all of the past as I fasten my heart to the future instead..."

— Phil. 3:13 [TPT]

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