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My Greatest Fear Essay

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Throughout my entire life I have been in many situations in which I have to give a speech. Whether it is for school, for a social event and even in our homes we have many situations where we have to speak. When it is with family members, it is easily to speak fluently because your ideas and thought flow naturally. However, when talking to someone new or giving a speech in front of new people, our confidence drops dramatically. A little help for this is getting prepared or even plan what are you going to say, but you still have that feeling of anxiety and terror when speaking in front of a lot of people. That is what we call the fear of public speaking. There are many ways of overcoming this fear, but it’s not easy. This was my greatest fear …show more content…

Everyone know what fear is, a part of life is having fears and learning how to overcome them. While some people have a variety of fears others only have one, but at the end they all have the same struggle that fear can overpower you and in the worst cases start affecting your personality. Many of us have probably experienced this feeling at one time or another. It can causes us to do nothing, to stop ourselves from improving and makes us miss some great chances that life gives us. It’s important for us to understand that fear is something normal and at the end can we can overcome it, our …show more content…

I just couldn’t bare that I was so coward to overcome the fear of public speaking. The anxiety was driving insane and made me lose many opportunities of showing what my true potentials were. Fear is something no one wants to admit, not even me. I couldn’t admit it, but I knew I couldn’t do it alone. Life could get easier if I just could overcome my fear. Also, my grades started to lower because of my bad presentations and public speaking, I kind of knew if I said what was happening with me will make the teachers help me, but I wasn’t convinced and I couldn’t accept my fear. I think that was what cause my fear to

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