MAKINGTHEMOST OFYOURPOTENTIAL

BYROYANDRIEMONTAÑO

Back in 2018 when I was a grade 9 student at St. Joseph School La-Salle, I was elected to participate in a certain event that my school practiced every year. This event was to showcase each section's talents through class dancing and a Mr. and Ms. for each section. In 9th grade, there were 9 sections all in all to participate in such event, two participants for the Mr. and Ms. and then suddenly my adviser told me that I will represent our section, after she told me that I am representing our section my whole body wants to collapse due to being nervous for I know to myself that I am not good at this kind of things. After that, I went home to tell my mother the news and she was very happy for me because she knows that this will help me to develop my skills on encountering crowded people and for me to develop my self-confidence.

The following day, the event that I am participating in is coming too close, there we practiced on how we should walk on the stage and even practiced on the dialogues that we are about to say. We practiced our dance performance and all of the activities that we should perform in that event. My body started to collapse again because of the nervousness that I felt but my adviser and my classmates are there to cheer me up and make me feel motivated. Then the day happened, when I was going to perform at the stage in front of all of my batch mates.

Afterwedresseduptoperform,atthebackstagewherewearegettingready,I feltlikemywholebodyisveryheavyandIcan’teventalktomypartner.Atthat time,Ifeltlikethechairswerestaringatmeintenselyaskingmetokeepup.The eventstartedanditwasmytimetouttermydialogueandIgotmentalblockfor beingnervous,thenmywholebatchmatesstartedtoshoutformetofeel motivated.ThereItookadeepbreathandclosedmyeyestoconcentrateandtry tostatemyspeech,goodnewsthatIwasabletofinishedmylineandfeltrelaxed.

AtthattimeofmylifeI’veneverfeltmoreconfidentin crowdedpeople.Iknowthatnoteveryoneisblessedwith confidencerightaway.Itisnotspontaneous,you'llgetit fromtheinfluenceandyoursurroundingsaswell.Andthat wasthetimeIhavegainedmyself-reliance