Face Your Fears… =/ December 8, 2008

I learned that instead of being afraid of everything all the time I need to start facing my fears.  We can’t just let our fears rule our lives because it could keep us back from the thing that we could achieve.  When I was in high school we never really had a lot of classes where discussion was the main part of the course.  In college most of my classes are discussion classes and they are honors classes.  I often tend to feel like I am not s smart as I may seem to appear to other people.  Since the beginning of this semester I have been thinking that I was not as smart as the other people in my classes.  I have been sitting back in the classes thinking that I shouldn’t say anything because everyone would think I was dumb based on what I would say.  Then someone else in the class would say the exact thing that I was thinking but did not want to say.  Eventually I realized that what I had to say was good enough for the class but I was still scared.  I don’t even know why I was so scared to say what I had to say I just know that I couldn’t find the courage to say what I wanted to say.  This week I felt that I could no longer sacrifice my participation grade and began to speak up in class. I felt like I just had to give it a try and see what came of it.  Turns out that I actually have valuable things to say and by participating I am actually learning more than I did before.  I am not just a spectator I am now part of the show.  This is just one of the many fears that I have learned to get over.  I plan to keep trying to face my fears.  I cannot keep letting my fears keep me from not reaching my full potential.  Fear is just a state of mind that we must get over in order to live our lives to the fullest.

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