Confidence..build it, wear it, flaunt it!!
Imagine you are in a deep hole and have hit rock bottom. It is the first time you are stuck in a situation like this. You have to get out of here somehow and make it to the top. How do you get out? What do you do? Yell out for help!! That will be the first thing you would do..I am so sure!! Well that is what anybody would do. “HELP!!! SOMEBODY!!!” you scream at the top of your voice…wait for a reply. . .well what do you know, you don’t hear a reply.
“You are doomed!!” says a voice in your head.
When you are just sitting there, hands over your face, your mind thinking you are done for it…You look up. There is light!! The sky!! You can see it..you want to get up there! This is when you decide no matter what happens, YOU ARE GETTING OUT!!
Now you start believing in yourself. There is faith that is building up from within you..faith in yourself. You are building up confidence. Every cell in you body is pumped up..!!
You look around…there is wood!! Two logs of wood. YES!!! You remember this thing you had seen in television, you know where a guy uses logs to climb out of hole..he sits on one and fixes the other above him horizontally using walls as grip, then climbs up on it and takes the previous log and repeats the same thing..and VOILA!! He is out of there!! A total dramatic version of this with an up beat background music plays in your head..and you are now hyped up to try it and that little voice in your head is now singing the background music!!
You pick up the logs. Fix one and stand on it, then fix the other and it fits perfectly. You are now happy. You jump up to the higher log and take the one below you and try to fix it above..Boom!! Done..you are propping yourself up!! Well you are almost there..now just when you are making a leap for it the log you are standing on cracks and THUD!! You know what..you are back in the hole!!
You start losing faith..with it your confidence drops. You are back in the same place again, hands over your head..this time you are sobbing. Just as you are giving up on everything, you hear a bird singing..there is cool air that touches your skin..Man, you wanna get out!! Yes you do!! Okay..you breathe out heavily and this time you are back with much more faith and confidence..!! You look around..that last log is still sitting at the top..Stiff!! Well..there is something you can do..vines!! You see vines. You can make a rope and get out!! Well you know what..the background music is back again.
The last time you got so close..you now are craving to get out! Your confidence has reached a new level. The rope is ready..you throw with your super good arm and it makes a knot with the log. Climb. Climb because your life depends on it!! Climb because you are doing it for yourself!! Climb because you waana tell your glorious heroic tale to everyone and knock their brains out!! Climb because you believe YOU CAN DO IT!! CLIMB!!
It pays off. You are out. Free. You did it. YOU!! It was all YOU. Determination and faith in something that you want to achieve lead you this far. Confidence and belief in yourself brought you out of darkness and into the light. Realize this : YOU DID IT!!

You are practically oozing with confidence right now. Yes, you stink of it. You know how you got that?? You built it up all by yourself. It was built with a lot of effort, experience and determination. Remember life is not a jolly stroll in the meadows with bright sunshine and a clear path. You do not get everything you want as perfectly as a cherry on top of a beautiful piece of cake. No!! You gotta suck it up and strive for it. Fall a hundred times, get up hundred and one times. Every step you make, you learn something and it will for sure come in handy at a point in life.
Bottom line is you just have to believe in yourself, wear and flaunt that cloak of confidence you built all by yourself.
PS: Dont forget to tell that story of you stuck in the hole and getting out to your pals kay??! Also, the background music ;P
Love,
Inniya.