Why You Should Watch What You Are Saying To Others

When I was 14 years old, my teacher encourages me to be an MC for a graduation ceremony. It was one of the most festive events held by my school because it wasn’t only for graduation but also for art performances and awarding as well. I was picked because I was the only student in my class who was new in town from a big city which doesn’t seem to have a strong dialect like the other students.

I have never thought about speaking in a huge crowd before, but I thought there’s no harm in trying. By the end of the event, everyone seemed to like it and I was offered to do the same for a few events as well.

I keep doing what speaking as an MC or a presenter until I was entering high school. Everything seems to go well until at 17, I was in charge to do the same with two other colleagues who fought off-stage and changed my mood and I performed really badly.

One of the teachers at my school was watching my entire poor performance and one day, when I was doing a presentation for her class, she said: “What you did the other day was already bad enough and you are doing it right now just making it worse”.

It was the moment when I feel so down I no longer have the confidence to speak in public. I was afraid and traumatic. I started to close myself from other people. When social media came along, I make my account private and I got very picky choosing people who follow me on Instagram or accepting friend requests on facebook. It was so frightening to get anymore hate-words from people.

A few years go by and I still have this traumatic syndrome from it. But slowly I have tried to push myself to go back and be ready to what I used to do. It was hard, even until now.

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So, my highlight is, watch what you are saying to others. If you have something to say to them, say it with the manner and in a stable condition, so you won’t push them down.

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