I have, I have debated, sang, emceed, and all the while I had crippling anxiety, considered abandoning the stage, may have blanked a few times.
One time I had blanked out right in the middle of a high-stake quiz competition at school ( was a district level competition) and we lost, I had let everyone down. Next year was better though, it was the Bournvita Quiz with Derek O Brien who had come to our school and I came third, a major win for me. But my anxiety always found a way of one-upping me and haunts me still.
I overcame my anxiety with a lot of practice and stopped treating it like an enemy. Instead I used it to practice like it was war. I now just have a new kind of anxiety, posting on social media. I have been planning to start an Instagram channel where I just sing and I have been sitting on it for months now.
Guess what my 2024 resolution is??
Fingers in symphony 