First speech experience in school
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I remember that when I spoke for the first time in my class, I was nervous like I am speaking for my life and if I make a mistake then I am going to get killed. I was in 1st year of my college and I had to speak on financial accounting in one of our seminars that used to take place every Saturday in our college and it was our first seminar. Till 12th standard I had never spoken in front of a group. The night before the seminar I had prepared my speech and practiced it properly. On the seminar day before my speech I was shivering like anything,I started having all kinds of negative thoughts,what would happen if I forget? What would happen if I stammer? What if everybody starts making fun of me on my mistakes? But somehow I gathered the confidence and started speaking. The scary feeling that you get when you speak for the first time cant be explained. I started off pretty well but because of so many thoughts rushing inside my mind,I forgot what I had prepared in the middle and I thought that now everybody is going to make fun of me but to my astonishment nothing such happend,in fact the teacher who was conducting the seminar encouraged me and I was able to complete my speech, even my friends praised me and encouraged me to speak more often.
After this I realised that your fear of public speaking is inside your head. People are not going to judge you like you think you are going to get judged,you have to fight the insecurity demon who is stopping you,who is making you conscious. If you win over that demon then I am sure you wont face any problem while speaking in public.
After that I have spoken 5-6 times in seminars and now I don't feel so conscious like I felt for the first time.
Well I gave my first speech in my 8th class and it was a very bad experience.....my voice was shivering and I was sweating........but still I had a funny smile on my face and thankfully i didn't mispronounced any word....and in order to reduce my nervousness I just thought about the worst phenomena which might happen and that increased my nervousness which made my smile even more funny, and I still remember my sister principal sitting in front, covering her mouth with her handkerchief......I was way too much sure she was laughing....after that speech my friends laughed at me for almost 5 periods.....so in the end I wasn't scolded by my class teacher.