Taking my own Advice

I’ve found public speaking terrifying after some point in my teenage life. I would get all nervous and do what I’m not supposed to and not do what I am supposed to when it involves presenting myself in an audience. That’s when I realized that it didn’t have to do with ‘speaking’ but with approaching crowds!

Yesterday I got the opportunity to speak about something that I’m entirely passionate about. What is important is that it was not something made up, learned forcefully or crammed for the sake of presenting. It was about one thing that has kept me going ever since I was a kid and that has always been there for me at every stage of my life. It was about “writing” and I’ve been doing that ‘for myself’ for as far back to the past as I remember. For some reason, writing a diary for over 10 years might have made me closer to pen and paper and expressing myself through ‘my’ words.

I’ve always comprehended communication and expressing ourselves as two parts of one big thing, but I’ve never understood how I was good at expressing myself through a written form and singing but not by speaking. But like always, time has been successful in proving me something, “what we believe in, we become”! For as long as I believe that I can’t do something, I will definitely not be able to do it.

There have been opportunities thrown at me recently that literally ‘pushed' myself to grow and face several things I hated doing, just because I believed I couldn’t. Getting an opportunity to speak about writing and how to express something through words, has ultimately made me realize that maybe speaking itself is not what we are nervous about, but we “speak about” is! Whenever we are supposed to do something we are passionate about, even the misbeliefs that have been holding us back will not affect us as much anymore.

For anyone and everyone who doubts yourself in some area, facing your fears constantly will be the only solution that will take you to overcome those fears. If that seems hard, try to relate it with something you’re deeply passionate about and give it a go, I am pretty sure you’d get there someday. Well whoever knows, I might even find out that I’m good at dancing someday! ;)

Thanks for reading till the end, it’s time to start making things better for yourself too... ♥