Battling With Boldness

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I have shared a story about myself, which I indicated that I was kind of a shy person. That's truth I'm a very shy girl, I used to battle with boldness whenever I'm outside, I tend to discover my boldness when I'm alone or with my very closed loved ones.

This was not what I wanted, I want to be bold, it is not only when I'm angry or drunk that I should exercise my boldness, coming out only on rare occasion. It has not been easy with me but knew I had to do something to overcome this.

Although that fear of not speaking out sometimes has taught me how to talk only when it is necessary and needed. You hardly hear me say something when I know it was not important at the moment, because my siblings use to tell me that I talk too much when I was at home but when I'm outside it is another ball game entirely. What I told them that I was just showing maturity which they know I was trying to cover up.

Time for presentation

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In life there are somethings you can't run away from, no matter how hard you try, you must surely face it. So I had to face my fear when I got into tertiary institution, before then I had already been told about what to face, "there would be enough presentation waiting for you so you can hide unless you want to fail woefully.

I knew this time around was not time for joke, behold the first presentation came on the second semester, and it was our Continuous Assessment for that semester. Oh God how do I go about this, where would I start from, should I forfeit this presentation just like that and forget about the C.A, after all I still have exams to write, I will put all my effort there. Then another thought came into my mind what if I don't make it through the exams, a lot was going through my mind.

The change came when my friend adviced me not to shy away from the presentation. Standing for 20 minutes talking to the class wouldn't kill me, people has been doing more than that and they didn't die, don't just let this ruin your grades in school.

From then I made a promise to be the best presenter, so I made sure I prepared thoroughly and massively, studied everything I needed to, practised my paper and repeated it over again, I imagined myself talking to the class with boldness and confidence.

Cut the story short, the day for the presentation, I waited for my turn and when it reached, I went out and did my thing without looking at any one, after I was done the whole class applauded me and that day I felt on top of the world, never believed it was me. When the result came out I was among the best. I realized that is what you enjoy when you learn how to face your fears, no matter how afraid you are.

Thank you.