What is confidence?

What is confidence?

Namaste Everyone,

What is confidence?

 Confidence for  me is accepting yourself as you are and not  pretending to be someone else according to the  circumstances in life.Our focus should  be on things we are able to do without  worrying about what we can’t do!

I just want to share a short story of mine here ..when I was in Ist standard,  I was selected  for a poem recitation competition in school ..I prepared well and I was confident..but when I went on stage,before reciting the poem as we have to introduce ourselves and greet  Principal Sir , teachers and fellow friends..but as I was very small at that time and could not see where Principal  sir was sitting(sounds funny now😂) and so could not  greet him before starting.. because of this I stood numb there, did not start ..I could not utter a single word and finally my teacher came  to take me  off the stage..but as a little kid I felt very insulted, this little incident had such a huge impact on my childhood days that I never ever dared to participate  in any individual  competitions .Stage fear was soo..much in me that I never even tried once..I remember my teachers asking me again and again as I was good in studies to participate but I never did..I was afraid  of failing again..and thought not participating will protect me  from this fear of failure..Not participating  will protect me from judgement of others..At that time I used to make thousands of excuses  for not participating..but now I strongly feel that One incident deprived me from enormous  opportunities  that were offered to me in my school days to prove myself but I failed to grab even one of them..

This one thought that I  will fail gets into our heads soo much...The thing is we may fail and not that we will definitely  fail..but fear of failure  stops us from living life to our full potential..I now completely  agree with the fact that self confidence  is the game changer..We have to believe  in ourselves...It is the thing that can change our ordinary lives to extraordinary..  Confidence does not guarantee  100% success  rate,but atleast  it will be higher than 0% in case we donot try at all..

I am also quite a ordinary  individual  but with no notable achievements  in life,but now that when I analyse my past life,I wasted precious  childhood years that could have been filled with many  little achievements, I myself deprived me from them..I feel this lack of confidence held me back always, stopped me from doing what I really wanted and was really good at..It stopped me from living life fully..It stopped me  and made a strong impression in my mind that I am average,can not achieve anything ,so I must go and stand in the last of the queue..

I request everyone reading this please donot undermine  yourself  by small small failures ,donot label yourself as average..We all are special in some sense ..We all are precious and are capable of achieving  anything we want to ..but for that  the minimum  requirement  is we should not stop trying..and PLEASE  PLEASE..never ever stop believing  in yourselves... 😊😊,keep trying..