I Can Do This
Motivational speaker, Zig Ziglar once said, “Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That’s success.” For me, it took several months to realize what my greatest weakness was. It was something that stood with me for such a long time that I soon began to believe that it was a part of my identity. I can’t really say that I became used to dealing with it, but more like I used it to help me become much more stronger and successful. I knew there were several people out there who dealt with the same thing I was dealing with, some even had it much worse. However, I still wished that I didn’t have to struggle with it and that it would just disappear. That was when I realized that I wasn’t going to let it negatively affect me anymore. Overcoming my weakness, the dreadful anxiety, was a challenging yet rewarding journey. Breathe in. Breathe out. Two statements that everyone would always tells me. Two statements that never worked. Here’s the thing, anxiety is such an uncontrollable and indescribable feeling that anyone who isn’t dealing with it, may never know how it truly feels. Anxiety has a tendency to follow you around everywhere you go. It does not want you to relax, it wants you to be constantly worrying about every little thing out there. It doesn’t care if all you want to do for one day is be worry free and enjoy a moment, it’ll still be there. Always. Normally, when anxiety hits, it becomes hard to breathe. Everything around you just seems to stop and you feel like you're trapped in your own thoughts. A distressed look starts to show on your face and you begin to panic. This is what I had to deal with for many years. Understanding that I couldn't let anxiety control my life anymore, I started to change my outlook on things. I began to understand the idea that everyone has the power to control their minds. Soon enough, I realized that I would have to work very hard to change the thoughts that arose in my head because of anxiety. Instead of allowing anxiety to convince me that I couldn’t do something, I would tell myself that I have …show more content…
In school, I joined a very well known club, South Asian Club. At the end of the year, the South Asian Club puts on a huge event that showcases our culture and traditions. Deciding to try something new, I took part in the cultural dance part of the show. Now if I were the same person dealing with anxiety a few months back, I would have never decided to join this dance. I would have told myself that I couldn't possibly learn a dance and perform it on stage without messing up in front of the huge audience. However, by slowly changing my outlook on life and my self confidence, I told myself that I could definitely do this. By participating in the dance, I was forced to step out of my comfort zone, something I would have never done in the past. At the end of my successful dance performance, I had realized that the anxiety that had been following me around for such a long time, was no longer with