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As I was taking a walk down the street walk way to gather some more points for my @actifit activities report yesterday, I saw kids playing football in an open space, it reminded me of the days of long ago, when I was a kid like them too loving so much to play football on the street. 


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<h3>Our Love for the Game of Football</h3> 

Once we came back from school back then, we hurriedly removed our school uniforms and came out of our houses to play street football. We didn’t bother to do our school homework first or doing any house chores or even eating. All we just wanted to come out and be among the first group of players to be selected to play first set. 


<h3>Life Back in the Days</h3> 

Life then was full of fun, but we had people who didn’t like the fun we were having and they felt we had better and more important things to do with our time than play football and they were our parents. Lol. You see, back then, playing football was seen as something that wasn’t going to result in anything positive in a kids’ life, it was placed in the category of musicians, actors, comedians and professions like that. But now, all that has changed, footballers’ are earning in a week what some parents are going to earn in 35 years of dedicated active service in the professions they termed proper. Lol. Our parents wanted us to be doctors, lawyers and engineers and not aiming to be such meant you were not serious with your life.  


<h3>I could have been the Next Big Football Star</h3> 

Meeeeen! I could have been one of the best players in the world, I could have been playing for Manchester United, Real Madrid or Barcelona, I could… Yeah yeah, I guess you guys get what I mean. Lol. But could have, was what we all had a dream of back then. But I was even finding it difficult getting selected for the street football games not to talk of state or national teams. But it is good to have a reason for not achieving my dreams of becoming a great footballer though, I can’t be telling people I don’t play with my left leg or that the game was too fast for me or that I didn’t have the skills for the game. 

<h3>It Finally Went Away</h3> 

So, as I watch those kids playing, I just remember the good old days when we had a lot of friends, when to be happy is what we just wanted to be, when our thought were just for ourselves and we didn’t need to worry about 10 or 15 years from now. Now our thoughts are for our families, their future and what they become. I now tell them to stay home and read their books so that they can be successful in life, I tell them that education is very important and that getting a university education is the key to having a successful career. I just hope they don’t ask me what course of study Ronaldo or Messy read at the university they graduated from. Lol. 
    


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