Ever had that stupid butterfly in your stomach everytime you make a speech in school or something, in front of many people? Here's a speech I made the year before last year. It's for my school project. We we're told to make our own speech and we can choose any topic we want. Since I saw that almost all of my classmates have a stage fright, I wanna give them a boost of self esteem, I mean, self confidence. LOL!
Courage
Optimistic, such a simple word, meaning, positive thinker, but havent you noticed, some of us are the opposite, which is pessimistic? The question is, why? Why do we have to always think that we couldnt do it? We ought to have courage on every little thing we do. Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says... I'll try again tomorrow.
We shouldnt be afraid of breakdown. Its part of life. In a battle, someone wins, someone losses. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore. We cant be winners at all times. We have to be losers too, to be able to discover our weaknesses and to be able to learn from our mistakes. Nobodys perfect in spite of everything. At one point of our lives, we have to fall, because when we fall, its great to feel the pleasure of standing up again. As a child, we have to touch the fire first, to be able to comprehend that its hot.
We just have to deem in ourselves. Always say to yourself, I can do this! When the world is on your shoulders, just smile and let it show. If people try to put you down, just walk on by, dont turn around. You only have to answer to yourself. Now, thats a nice song, I must say.
Fear, another simple word, every one of us has this. One says, Im afraid of the dark. Then I say to him, fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. Then he says again, Im afraid I wont be able to memorize my speech. Then again, I say to him, fear is just a simple acronym meaning, False Evidence Appearing Real. You know who that anxious person is? Me. I have so many things that Im troubled of. But I keep on saying to myself when Im afraid to face my fear, You don't face your fears, you stand up to them.
I believe that bravery is half audacity and half apprehension. Because bravery is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
So if some of you have the fear of standing on this stage, speaking in front of many people, just take into account that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. If youre afraid of messing up with your speech, never mind, I myself had forgotten some lines in my speech but have you noticed it? I guess not, because I don't fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?"
So friends, let us all remember that brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness inside. Dont be afraid to mess up, its not the end of the world for you anyway. Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again. Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all. So we shouldnt let fear, be a factor. Thank you.
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