What would you try if you could return to childhood, and what should you tell children now?

Let's turn back time!

If you could instantly turn back time and return to your childhood, what would you do?
Study? Sports? Or go all-in on your favorite hobby?

No, no, if you're going to go back anyway, wouldn't you want to try something impossibly ambitious?

For example, during summer vacation, you could try building a space rocket and seriously attempt to launch it; surely every boy has had thoughts like that in his youth!

Or maybe build a secret base in the middle of the schoolyard and host a real-life adventure game that gets everyone involved? And then, write a letter to your future self, drop it in a future-bound mailbox,

and conduct a grand experiment to see if you can really receive it! You might think, 'Isn't that just a time capsule?', but that's up to your own sensibility!

And how about forming a band with your friends and performing a live concert on the school roof, getting the teachers involved and making it a huge success? You might say, 'Just do that at the school festival,' but still,

the thing is, when you become an adult, the voice in your head gets in the way, saying, 'That's impossible! You're bound to fail!'

In the first place, as humans age, we accumulate various experiences and become wiser! In other words, when we start thinking about what happens if we fail,

it's a fact that we inevitably shift into a defensive posture, a mindset of avoiding risk kicks in, and as a result, we become unable to take action!

But childhood is a magical time where even if you fail, you're laughed at and forgiven! That's exactly why it's worth it to seriously commit to a dream that looks completely ridiculous that you can only pursue at that age!

What I want to tell children

What you realize after becoming an adult is the regret of 'I wish I had tried it!' And then, you grumble, 'If only I had the courage to try, the future might have been different!' and the regret grows significantly!

So, there is only one thing I want to tell children! Anyway, if you think you want to do it, do it right now! Because no matter how much a parent prepares the environment, the one who finally flips the switch and takes action is the child themselves!

But just having an adult by their side to push them forward makes that first step surprisingly easier! For example, try making a 'things I want to do' notebook and have them write down just one thing they want to do every day!

When they talk about their dreams, you must never say it's impossible!

Instead, by asking, 'How do you think you could do it?', you first stand on the same level as them, but it's faster to show them by having adults seriously act like fools and teach them through experience that 'trying is fun'!

In the end, children grow their image of the future by watching their parents' backs, so the successful people of the future are among the children of today!

Once, there was a boy who looked up at the sky in his childhood and dreamed, I want to go to space! His name is Elon Musk!

And that boy, who seriously said he wanted to change the world, eventually went on to create Tesla and SpaceX!

In other words, the childhood dreams that children talk about while playing today will surely become the engine that drives future society! The romantic fantasies of childhood are highly likely to become the raw material that changes the world!

Summary

The things you would want to try if you could return to childhood can actually be started right now! However, as adults, the heavy chains of fear of failure weigh us down, making us think it's too late to start now.

That is precisely why I want to tell children: Don't be afraid of failure! Taking on challenges is romantic! And as parents, isn't it our job to keep pushing them forward, even if they find us annoying or laugh at us?

In short, it is the children living today who will carve out the future! Today is the youngest day of the rest of our lives for all of us, and how we spend this moment is what shapes the future, isn't it?

It is the responsibility of us adults to set the stage so that children can freely envision big dreams and make them a reality! That is why Japan needs to invest more actively in the children who will carry the next generation, rather than focusing investments solely on the elderly!

As an aside, what about this?

What we entrust to the future should be children's dreams and not pensions! I truly hope that the foolish and incompetent politicians will stop focusing on their own positions and post-retirement jobs, and instead look seriously at the children who will carry the future of this country.

Bringing in people through lackluster immigration policies for 'Africa hometowns' or flooding the country with Chinese nationals solves nothing; rather, all the money being diverted in such useless ways should be spent on the children who are Japan's future, you incompetent politicians!

I want you to understand, pro-China lawmakers, that supporting the hikikomori and NEETs who want to work but cannot is a higher priority!