Hints from the past

 Hope you enjoy the read! : )

Foreshadowing.

For the people that are not familiarized with its meaning
“Foreshadowing is a literary and narrative technique used by creators to drop subtle hints or warnings about events that will happen later in a story”

I stole this from google. 

Why did I tell you the meaning of foreshadowing? Because it makes it easier to explain why I believe our lives are full of foreshadowing.

Now ok, I don’t mean we’re in a little book, and there is a start, climax and closure, what I want to say is things from the past, how you acted, something you said, something that happened, might come back to the present and play a big role in your life. In fact, foreshadowing for your future might be happening right now.

 

I understand it might be a bit confusing, so let me give you a few examples of things that happened in the past randomly and eventually played a big role in my life.

I mentioned here before that I speak 3 languages, Portuguese, English and German, the two first I grew up with, but German I had to study, and study hard. 

But after I was pretty much done with my studies of the language, one thing that struck me as interesting was that when I was a kid, I opened Duolingo with a friend out of fun and picked a random new language, and the one I chose was German because I thought it was cool. In school, I remember talking to a colleague and asking him if we should learn another language other than English, he said French, I said German. 

One year after that I started learning the language for real.

That’s pretty interesting don’t you think? 

Another example could be with my guitar. When I was a kid, I used to always see my grandpa's guitar around the house. I couldn’t play it but I tried it a few times. Years later, I started learning how to play the instrument, with that same guitar.

I could go on with foreshadowings from that played or play a big role in my life.

Backflip -> As a kid I used to randomly say to my friends “I’ll do a backflip” because I thought it was funny idk, and I now learned how to do it.

Cooking -> I remember one day being in the kitchen with my dad while he cooked and asking about how to cook, years later I started to learn how to do it properly.

Startup -> During my school days, we were “encouraged” (To not say forced) to pick a separate so to say “course”, my choice was the one about Startups, in which we had to build one. Years later now I am actually building a Startup. How mad is that?

And there is SO MUCH MORE. Even ones that haven’t happened yet. I remember I tried to steal a bow and arrow from my history teacher (lol) once because I wanted to learn how to use it. I’m SURE I’ll eventually start practicing it seriously.

I hope you understand what I’m trying to say here. Things that happen they stay with you, they get to be part of who you are and might play a significant role in your life. It’s like… Destiny. 

It’s like it couldn’t have been any different how my story goes. Plenty of my life was already hinted in the past, for you it might be the same.  

Maybe what I’m trying to say is to embrace the things you haven’t forgotten, and live life aware that SO MUCH is already being hinted. Maybe even reading this post is a hint to something soon.

Anyway that’s it for today : )

My longest post yet, but I had real fun writing it. 

See you tomorrow! (TOMORROW WILL BE AWEASOME)