Journal 56: Public Speaking

    There are people that do like to go on stage than others but I do believe that everyone have stage fright. There are a lot of example that the talkative ones are very quit and shy on the stage. This is a perfect example of how people are afraid to go on stage even if they’re used to talk with others. Being on stage is a nervous thing because everyone’s attention is on you, and what ever you do is being exam with a magnifying glass. Even if it is just a small mistake, people might talk about it for weeks and you will lose all your reputations. So the tension increase with the number of audiences there are, talking in front of the school could be a very frightening thing.

    For me, it is a lot easier to talk in normal way then poems because I feel more comfortable talking in the way I talk to my friends. I can pretend all the audience are not that and I am just talking to my friend, which improve my performance. If there are enough audience that I can’t see particular anyone’s face and I don’t know the audience, I feel less nervous too.