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What Would You Tell Your 8 Year Old Self?

19 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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A speaker imagines telling their 8-year-old self that everything will be okay, despite the hardships ahead: their father's cancer diagnosis and death, the discovery that life isn't always sunny, and the winding paths required to reach acceptable outcomes.

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Yeah, it would be because I'm such a massive fan of movies and pop culture. I don't want to mess too much with the space-time continuum. So, if I have in fact been able to master time travel, I think that the reluctance for me would be I don't want to give away too much, but I also think it would be super beneficial for me at 8 years old to hear that it's going to be okay. Because, yeah, obviously we met in our amazing TEDx opportunity. We'll talk about that later, I'm sure. Yeah. You know, 8-year-old Steve was just starting to realise that life wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. My dad would have just got diagnosed with his first round of cancer, and we would lose him 4 years later. I wouldn't know that. But yeah, I think it would be really nice for me to be able to reassure my 8-year-old self that everything's going to be okay. But what I've realised now in my 38 years and a bit on Earth is that even though it's going to be okay, It doesn't mean that the way that we get through everything has to be the way that it's done.