Paula Nahoum:Be Confident

Be Confident “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy,” said Norman Vincent Peale. When I was in the school, the director proposed to organize a special play for mothers’ day. It was an amazing idea because mothers would be very happy and proud of seeing their children on the stage. They would be also so excited to watch their own kids presenting their valuable gift. For that reason, our teacher was responsible of preparing the play. Thus, she had to choose the students who wanted to participate in this act. In addition, she had to distribute the role of each student. She gave me the principal role because she felt that I was able to act properly. I was so content to present a major part of the play. However, I was frightened of forgetting my script or acting wrong. I spent many days practicing and memorizing the line script. Finally, the 21st of March came. My mother didn’t know that I was going to present the main role. I hid it to surprise her, and she really was. She was joyful and astonished because she didn’t notice before that I was a talented actor. When I was seeing joy expression came over her face, I forgot all the fear and tiredness. At the end, I learned that if I didn’t believe in my abilities and tried to improve them, I didn’t success. Believing in our own powers, in addition to practice and exercise, can make us do the impossible.