{"id":14,"date":"1997-10-02T22:21:45","date_gmt":"1997-10-02T22:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/1997\/10\/02\/14.html"},"modified":"1997-10-02T22:21:45","modified_gmt":"1997-10-02T22:21:45","slug":"14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/1997\/10\/02\/14.html","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i am going to go with shoe to early morning chanting and meditation tomorrow and i am pretty psyhed about it. it is almost a good thing that there are no interviews tomorrow.. or maybe it is a bad thing; i have not decided.<br \/>\nas much as i am trying not to be nervous, i cannot help the little flickly feeling inside my stomach that screams &#8220;you&#8217;re gonna fuck up&#8221; whenever i think about the interviews. intellectually, i know fully well that i should not be fearing the interviews- there is nothing right or wrong about what is said in interviews. i cannot make a fool out of myself except to me and my ego. why is that so important? why is it so crucial that i do the right thing and make my ego look good? what will it take to get over that?<\/p>\n<p>in ninth grade, i was afraid of talking over the loudspeaker. i avoided it at all costs. even though i was on student council and all student council members gave announcements, i avoided that at all costs. one day i realized that my avoidance was only causing me more problems. the more time i spent avoiding talking over the loudspeaker, the more time i hurt myself. in order to overcome it, i applied for a job as a sports announcer. my first day was miserable- i was quiet and afraid of the microphone. then a friend came up and told me to be myself.. that&#8217;s all that people wanted to hear anyhow. very soon later, i was energetic and enjoying myself.. i told jokes and had a fun time. people enjoyed when i was the announcer and i got compliments regularly. from that point on, i was never afriad of the microphone or loudspeaker&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>in order to overcome my fear, i need to force myself into an inverview. even if the first one is miserable, just doing it will help me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i am going to go with shoe to early morning chanting and meditation tomorrow and i am pretty psyhed about it. it is almost a good thing that there are no interviews tomorrow.. or maybe it is a bad thing; i have not decided. as much as i am trying not to be nervous, i [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}