Dilemma: Do I Choose my Childhood OR $20m

Being a child especially as an African child raise by an African parents (mothers especially), there are many memories attached to it.
Times you don't want to go where your parents are going to or wants you to go, times you don't feel like eating what they wants you to eat or what they are willing to give to you to eat moments when you have to compulsorily say Yes to their Yes even when your heart says No.

Moments when you feel like playing but they would say NO! Sleep there before I close and open my eyes, memories of when as an African child, you have to understand the various eyes contact your mum gives you either in the public or in the closet, else dirty slap/hit, ears deadlock(locking up your ear in between their first two fingers and turning it hard) or bumbum hits are the reward of acting contradicting to the eyes messages.

Memories of when you have to go spend the third term holiday of a session with a closed relation and the likes, memories of school rhymes, careers that ends up being illusions (most doesn't turn out to be what they dreamt of doing as a child), playing ball with co-boys, skipping rope with fellow girls, night tales, etc. These and more are cheerful memories of childhood that can't be erased aside when probably suffered from memory loss.

But after all these, the aim is to grow up, become an adult, reflecting on past mistakes growing up and working on making amends, regretting on losing some loved ones whom I might have saved if I had done this or that, and thinking on how to achieve what I've been longing to become from childhood career fantasies or the adjusted-to careers. Struggling and hustling to work towards it to achieve ones dreams and live a fulfilled life worthy of been emulated by someone behind even if not as a mentor. Having a reputable happy complete family that makes one glad of being fulfilled.
However, there's probability that everyone would not have the opportunity of achieving the above mentioned. Hmmm

So having the opportunity to choose between going back to 6years old child where I don't have control or freedom over how I want to live my life or when I want things done, having to take parental orders either I like it or not AND getting $20million to make my life worthwhile, also my family and the society I am in (cos a healthy fulfiled life and family would always influence their societies), moving on from all regrets and living a great life.

Definitely, with no doubts I would choose the $20million because going back to 6years only gets me back the fantasies and I might probably still end up getting things wrong just like before. I might even get it more wrong and the fear of not still losing the loved ones I lost might make me live in my shadows and not my normal self to live a good life for myself or to make them proud.

Like a popular saying that "Money is not Everything"..... But at the end of it all when you think about it, Everything is money.

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Thanks for reading to the end😊. A prompt by Hive-reachout community and I would love @hamokstitches to participate in this too

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