Facing Your Fears
Most people when they watch Batman (now it's called the Dark Knight), they only focus on the actions and the gadgets. When I watch Batman, I look at a deeper meaning. I realised the moral of the Batman story is to tell us to change ourselves, to face our inner fears. Not only that, but to turn our fear into our strengths! Just because you are weak now doesn't mean you will be weak for life. As long as you are willing to force yourself, toss yourself into your fears and LIVE! You can actually improve your very existence!
As for me, I believe everyone in this world has confidence. Just that after a long time living in this world thinking of what people think of us...we became timid - lack of confidence. Same thing for me, when I was in primary school, I was confident about myself. I care not others think of me and often start small fights with the bad kids in class. As I got into secondary school, things kinda change. I became more gentle and avoid fights with people. At that time, I cared for what I am in the eyes of others.
Somehow when I got to university, I decided things have to change, I don't want to be a loser for life, I want to be a WINNER! This was the time when I started pushing myself. The first thing I did to regain my confidence was to improve myself in presentation and public speaking. The reason to this was because there's so many people around me that feared presentation like it was something from hell, I wanted to prove to myself that I was someone who can trnasform my fear into my strength.
I did all sorts of things that I never thought I would be doing, I volunteered myself to become the emcee of university orientation. I have to say I never liked it, but pushing myself to talk infront of 1000 freshies was the fastest way I could achieve my goal. The first time was actually very shabby, I was kinda scared that I will forget what I'm supposed to say and my eyes glued to my notes...which really sucked! Even though I knew I sucked, I continued doing it for the next two semester where I slowly perfect the skill.
After obtaining what I wanted, my confidence, I wanted to test it out, to see how good I was. This was when I joined public speaking competition for my very first time in my life. To my surprised...I won, probably my rival wasn't in. The next competition, I challenged my rival to attend it. she did...it was a hell of battle, but I managed to beat her a little winning the 1st place. Till today, I still think I'm not good enough, that's why I joined toastmasters club, so I could beat the world one day!
Well, turning your fear into your strength isn't as easy though. It requires a lot of time and determination, i hate saying this, but most people rather live with their fears for life rather than challenging it! Are you on of them?
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I kind of prefer UltraViolet or AvonFlux, but they just look good in tight clothing! But with great power comes great responsibility, ok sorry about that one! I could go on crazily with many catch phrases but you are right if you don’t try how will you ever know who you really are, are you what people think of you or are you more then that!
But the part that one should always be, is be proud of who and what you are, ditch digger, failure as a stand up comic, newspaper reporter of person who sells papers. I guess I am saying I am glad to hear you were a success at what you applied yourself to, but not all people can become a success at what they try. And if you don’t make it as a success in one try, try something else of interest or love just be sure you try, failure is always an option if you chose to try something you may never be perfect at! So try to paint that perfect painting, try to run that marathon, try to write that perfect peace of music, you may never be the greatest in the world but you tried and tried with pride of your accomplishment!
By the way what was the question?
most people live their lives without unleashing their true potentials.
But some people put so much effort into something they will never achieve, so is it better to chase a dream that will never be or become a realist and go to your next dream on the list.!
Or is it better to be jack of all trades then lord of one???