Those Extracurricular Activities…

I’m not exactly the extracurricular activities queen and I don’t intend to be so, but I’ve learned pretty much from them and that’s why I wanted to share this. I’m part of the debate club and although I could do a whole post about debating, I won’t because I think all these activities have a lot of things in common and they all help you in many ways.

For starters extracurricular activities teach us a long list of values we can’t find anywhere else. For example, they teach us discipline. I’ve been there, wanting to join but don’t wanting compromise. The thing is, in life you will need discipline and for success you will need compromise, so you might as well start now!

Speaking specifically about debate, I’m not at all the best delegate, in fact, I’m really new to it, but I’ve learned so much from every debate I’ve been. And for me that’s one of the most important things, to always keep on learning. I absolutely love the whole experience, from investigating the topic, to writing the position paper, the ambient of the debate itself it just fills me.

I’m actually quite shy and debate has taught me a lot about being confident and speaking in public. It taught me that what I think is important and it must be heard. I’ve learned a lot about actuality, I’ve made friends, and the list just goes on and on among many other good qualities.

Just as debate there are a million extracurricular activities that can teach you a great deal of things.  They can make you more confident, they will help you believe in yourself and develop talent. They will make you feel you are doing something with your life, for yourself.

So yeah, I just really wanted to point that out and tell everybody that has the chance to join any of these activities to do so! It will be fun, fulfilling and so useful for your life.

-KAT

B R A V E

My favorite animal is the tiger. Tigers know what they want and they go straight to it without hesitation. Tigers are brave.

Brave: Fearless. Not afraid.

 I’ve always thought that this world was made for brave persons. Being brave is one of the most amazing, yet more difficult things that you can possibly be. We all imagine ourselves being brave, saying what we need to say, doing what we’d like to do. The heroic image of ourselves is absolutely brave.

What  are we  so afraid of? I have no idea. Our mind is sometimes quite impossible to understand and the things we fear, they never really make that much sense. We have a really bad habit to create scenarios in our heads, some are great and they’re no harm, but sometimes we end imagining all kind of bad thing and we often we end up confusing ourselves.

Brave persons probably hate being out of their comfort zone as much as anyone else, but they put tthemselvesin awkward and difficult situations because they know there’s where that thing they desire lies.

It’s amazing how much everything can change with only 20 seconds of bravery. I think it’s really important to always say the things we feel because if we don’t, we keep those things and they stay there, intertwining with other stored feeling and creating a pretty messy storm of emotions.

In order to be brave, or to achieve what we want is really important to know what we want, and this in not as easy as it sounds. We never really question ourselves this. One method is knowing what we don’t want, thats a good first step. And keep searching until we do know. Once we discover what is the thing that we want it’s important to tell the world that we want it. People never know what they want, how would they know what you want. Trust me, telling them makes everything more easier for everyone.

Anyway. I know it’s difficult and we always tell ourselves that we are going to be brave in 3, 2, 1…. But we stay quiet and comfort. Once you jump, if you do, the only thing you can do is enjoy the fall and hope for the best.

All I can say is that being brave is worth it. So let’s be it!

3, 2, 1…

KAT.