There was a boy who is once timid of things he is shy, practical and aware of himself and his surrounding meticulously.
One fine day, he went to the Sentosa beach with his friends - 13 of them. They decided to have a picnic at the beach. As the hours passed, they got more adventurous including the boy. They decided to stand on the swaying bridge and rock it from side to side. Then suddenly, the bridge swayed too much and caused 8 of them to fall into the water and the boy was one of them.
Out of the eight, 6 were girls and the other 2 were guys. And out of the eight, 3 were non-swimmers. One of the guy rescued the other two girls and the rest went back to shore but unknowingly, the boy couldn’t swim and none knew about it.
Seconds after noticing that the boy didn’t resurface, they realized that he can’t swim. His friends immediately rescued him. In the end, all went well, the boy was rescued but he had a phobia of swimming or going into the waters again.
3 years later, he was enlisted to N.S. And unfortunately, one fine day, all the guys have to know how to swim. And those non-swimmers have to learn. They boy felt afraid.
Every single time he had to go for swimming lessons, he faked illness; sprain ankles, sprain hand till one fine day he couldn’t think of any reasons any more for not going to lessons.
As many lessons passed, most of the non-swimmers know how to at least swim breast strokes. And then it daunt him.
All the while he has been giving excuses to escape reality. If he hadn’t gave all those excuses, he could have become a swimmer.
And so he realized he had to accept the truth, and stop giving excuses. He needed to learn to improve and to be not afraid of the waters.
This fine boy who is now a swimmer still has to overcome another obstacles. This boy like to socialize with people, make new friends and see people smile.
But this same boy has another phobia which is speeches, presentations in a meeting.
Many months back, he went for his meeting with the PRC. He was asked to demonstrate his selling skills to the PRC but in the end, he falter. His speeches were all over the places. He failed.
Then he started to have a phobia yet again. But this time round, he told himself not to be the boy who always gave excuses to himself. That way he wouldn’t grow.
After 3 or 4 meetings later, he was asked to demonstrate his selling skills again. He hesitated at first but he told himself not to falter again. And you know what, he felt at ease. He did it.
Morals of the story;
1 - Do not be afraid to try new things.
2 - Do not give excuses to the things that you are afraid to do, instead overcome your fear. That way you can become a better person.
3- There’s always more than one road to success and not to be stuck to just one road else your knowledge will be limited.
