If you know me well enough then you'd know that I do not like public speaking. I don't mind doing it with other people but when I have to stand up in front of all these people alone...something comes over me.
Today was one of those days that I have been dreading. I had to do a presentation in front of my philosophy class. Anyway, I woke up at 8AM and made myself some green tea. Then got to uni at 11AM and bought some peppermint tea, went out for lunch at 2PM and finally drank down two cups of green tea. You might be wondering why all this tea? Well apparently tea is proven to calm you down and relieve stress, and although I'm a huge fan of tea, I normally wouldn't do that on a Thursday.
Before I knew it, I was standing up in front of all these people talking about the empiricist vs rationalist debate and I wasn't even as nervous or anxious as I had imagined myself to be. Of course my voice was still shaky at times and I lost track of what I was saying but that didn't last throughout my presentation and was by no means anywhere NEAR as bad as the presentation I had given last semester in media. I felt really accomplished afterward and I never would have thought that I actually would have enjoyed public speaking. Thank you tea!
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On my way home I experienced some spontaneity from someone I have never met before on the train and it made me smile because finally someone did something impulsive :)
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