Lessons From life — Part 1: History Presentation
This is the first part of the series of articles I’m writing. I hope you enjoy the series and get some key takeaways from my story.
So, here’s this incident from the first year of my college. I had a presentation on a history topic. It was the second time I was presenting in front of so many people in my life. Somehow, I used to skip these things in school, which was a bad decision, I agree. And visibly, I was way too nervous. At first, I literally couldn’t speak. I asked my teacher if I could have some water and then start. She permitted. I restarted. Trust me, and I did learn my whole presentation. My legs were shivering; luckily, podium hid that embarrassment. Sixty human beings (not that big in number but sufficient enough to make a person like me nervous) continuously looking at me, waiting for me to start, finish, and “GO.” I had forgotten every single word by then. Fortunately, I had the written content, and I was able to present it just by reading it.
No matter how hard you try at that point in time, people will “judge” you. A few days later, I got to know that one of my classmates was mocking at me at the time of presentation. It was not something that shocking, like how, can that even happen. I’m well aware of my rough edges. But that genuinely hit me very hard. Because at that point in time, by presenting in front of those 60 people, I was fighting with one of my biggest fears.
“Inko bolna nahi hota toh humara time barbaad karne kyu aa jate hai…” (“When they don’t want to speak, then why do they stand in front of us to waste our time…”).
Undoubtedly, this isn’t any remarkable incident. It’s a very small one. Many people face much more insult, in rather a bigger number too. But why let the poisonous plant lay its root? For future mishappening? NO! It’s better to chop the poisonous plant before it becomes a giant tree, which would consequentially be harder to hew that too with the damage it must have already caused.
Eventually, I learned and most primarily ACCEPTED that “Nobody’s going to notice your efforts until you achieve what you aim for. YOU fight. YOU lose. YOU try. Again, and again. YOU WIN.” Simple as that. Don’t just take the criticism to your heart and sit back. Try again and again until you IMPROVE. They aren’t going to remember or even notice how much their amusement for a couple of minutes had affected you. Take the negative criticism of the positive result. Your aim shouldn’t be to improve to prove them wrong. No! You gotta try for yourself. You gotta win for yourself!
“Negative emotions are a call to actions.”
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