9. Speak your mind. Loudly!

  I used to be very outgoing and outspoken child. I would come to playground with zero friends and leave with two or three. I didn’t have any issue starting conversation. I was singing in public even though I didn’t exactly have a voice of an angel. I might have been a bit bossy as well. I used to be the child that is considered a talkative leader. I was about 6 years old.

    Nobody tells you that being in the teenage age can really suck sometimes. You don’t mention fear of speaking out to a little child when he or she asks about what’s it’s like being a grown up. Of course, I realise this doesn’t happen for everybody. But let me explain a little bit of my perspective.

    I have no idea when it happened but suddenly I preferred to be quiet than to say my opinion out loud. Sometimes I started feeling embarrassed when I eventually said what was thinking and people didn’t like it, or it was somehow wrong.

    To be honest this is something I still have a lot of work to do on. I realise I should speak my mind more but it’s harder to actually do so. Still, you really shouldn’t be afraid to say what you think. You just got to break the stereotype of being silent. It is so easily said and so much harder done and I totally understand that. It requires courage, but I believe I have it in me. And you sure as hell have it in you too!

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