Pretty Ruthless

Emma

Well-known member
Ouch, what a bunch of creeps!!! 8O
At least you got up and did it, you should be proud of that.
I wouldn't say anything back, as hard as it is, because thats probably what they want, to get a reaction out of you.
You did better than I would have done, last time I had to do that, I read two lines and ran away crying :p
 

maggie

Well-known member
SocialRetahd said:
So yea, I'm giving a presentation in college and im nervous of course. I start stuttering, can't make eye contact and have nervous Mannerisms. So after the presentation the kids rip me apart saying things like:

"He was showing how not to do a presentation. He gets an A for that."
"I don't want to participate in the bashing, but he had no confidence."

And on and on from there. I just had to sit there taking this. Why? Because how am I gonna stand up to people if I can't even look at them in the eye? I had some great retorts, but I didn't use them. Oh well.
hey SocialRetahd..the kids you go to school with sound like opinionated, insensitive jerkwads :evil: Good for you for doing the presentation at all, much more than i could have accomplished..just try to ignore those idiots..and you finishing college despite all of that..is a huge show of strength :wink:
 

Quickslash

Active member
Give yourself credit for getting up and doing it dude. You're awesome for doing it, and when you get outta college gettin' fat paid, you can hire a goon to go beat up those kids who made fun of you. :twisted:
 

JamesMorgan

Well-known member
The upside of this is that you have power to choose how you wish to remember this incident.

It may linger with anger and hatred, this is how they humiliate you again and again and again. This means they win. Everytime you think about it you must know in your mind you were victorious.

You can have the last laugh, be the victor.

What positivity can you take from this? Can you learn to laugh at yourself as they did? Take a subjective look at the presentation and watch from the back of the room at yourself giving the presentation. Yeah you stuttered, so what, we've all stuttered, big deal. We all make mistakes, big deal right? You could have made a complete hash of it, so what?

We need to learn to laugh at our faults and shortcomings, we all have them, everyone. When we do this we learn that we will mess things up its no big deal, it is quite funny in actual fact. We dont have to take it so personally. When people slag me off or deliberately point out my faults i thank them because they help me become unharmable.

When you laugh at your faults you cease hiding them, they eventually lose all power and so they slowly cease to be a problem. You no longer worry about being anxious around others because its funny looking all nervous and shaky. This is an internal attitude which helps you let go, words from others cant harm you, your own attitude causes you pain.

James
 
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