When an ECG machines display a straight line, the patient is announced dead. Such will be our lives without any struggle or challenges.
Cribbing over the situation is something which I have not learnt and don’t even follow. Rather, the intent is always to come out of it and make sure whenever next times it tries to be a hurdle, jump over it. While I was in grade 4, there occurred an incidence in life (or I realized then) which has totally turned the way I was. I stuttered. The impact kept gaining momentum and reached a point where I was as good as dumb. People in school apparently got another element of laughter and were happy about that. They were further ecstatic that they got to mimic a boy who in turn can’t utter a word to retaliate. Such was the story that kept me haunting every day of my life.
It was then, I decided this can’t go forever, I too have to stand in crowds without being the element of laughter. But that journey of coming out of the own isolated world into this really nasty and inevitable world wasn’t as easy as it seemed to be. Had it been for shyness and awkwardness, it would really take forever to let go of the isolation. The action plan was simpler than solving a basic mathematical equation which says two & two makes a four. It said, " go out and speak". And What’s better than facing your fear or phobia with a determined thought of overcoming it.? This marked the change in life and started kicking off the struggle.
Hours of talking to self in a mirror, recording my voice and listening to it in loops along with other handy tools made my journey smoother. From being a big-time stammerer and a laughter element to be well known for public speaking, I would like to MARK my struggle.
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