I had a bad history of stage appearances. Not that, if I reached on stage, someone was gonna come to me and eat me alive, but yeah, that’s how it felt to me. Apart from that what all I felt when I was on stage is tough to describe, but let me make an attempt to the same. Symptoms were as follows: 1) Looking down at the floor or up on the ceiling, 2) Dry lips, 3) Itchy throat, 4) Elevated heartbeat, 5) Trembling legs, 6) Sweat dripping all over me, 7) Lower than normal voice (I’m already known for not speaking much loudly) I’ll come back and add more if any other thing pops-up my head, but right now, apart from someone eating me alive, these 7 points I mentioned above were the key highlights of my mental and physical state whenever I stepped on any stage addressing even a crowd as small as 4–5 people. Yeah, I know 5 people might not sound big to you, but for someone who has stage fear and paranoia, for them it is a LOT. I
yes they do, they so do... nicely done there...
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ReplyDeletehumans are after all the salve of emotions and that is why they give into tempatation
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Yaa Soo true... scars tat make us choose better today only to realise we just fell for another temptation which would leave another scar!...
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I really like this. It's very thought-provoking.
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Lovely haiku with nice moral :)
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ReplyDeleteWelcome to life, with temptations, scars and all!
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Yes but if we look at those scars then they should remind us not to do anything stupid again .. we should learn from those scars
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