I watched the AFC championship game between the Bills and the Chiefs a few weeks ago. As I watching the Chiefs celebrate at the end, I started to wonder what it would be like to be a football player celebrating the win in front of hundreds of fans cheering. As I wondered that, I started pondering what my life would have been like had I not done a lot of the stuff I did when I was younger, such as skip school. I pondered on what could I have been had I focused on my schoolwork in high school instead of ditching school and barely graduating. What could I have been if I had focused on the right things instead of the wrong things? I could have been a famous guitar player rocking on stage in front of thousands of screaming fans.
As I was pondering these things, a simple though came to me, “What can you be now?” That thought silenced all the other “what could I have been” thoughts. I pondred that thought, what can I be now? I pose that question before you, the reader. What can you be now? You may have been like me when you were younger, focused on partying, drugs, and drinking. You may have cut school like me or been focused on the physical pleasures of life, maybe addicted to pornography. Perhaps you are currently struggling with an addiction or have struggled. But what can you be now? You cannot take back the past but you can control what you can become today and in the future.