This week’s Food For Thought Friday is all to do with confronting one’s pet hates or fears.
We all have them don’t we, and mine is that . . . being very shy by nature . . .
I really, really don’t like hearing the sound of my own voice.
Now for anyone who has met me in person, or been visiting here at Modesty Ablaze for some time, that may be quite hard to believe.
Because apparently, I never stop talking . . . and people often tell me, that I am never ever lost for words!!!
But as I say, I am actually a very shy person . . . particularly when meeting someone for the first time.
And I think that my talking so much, is like a defence mechanism that I have built up over the years, to try to challenge and overcome that natural shyness.
So . . . my occasional episodes here of setting my “Modesty Ablaze”, and throwing myself into character, was initially just a fun extension of that defence mechanism. Short little audio . . . and then video . . . snippets of silly indulgent fun which I thought I would only attempt once or twice and then quietly fade away back to hiding behind my keyboard and shunning the microphone and video camera.
Until, quite surprisingly, I began receiving requests for more posts of my “posh english accent” (LOL . . . if they only knew!)
So, I suppose the moral of my story is that . . . sometimes with things about yourself that you hate or worry about . . . the best way of confronting those worries is just to jump in and do it anyway. And having an alter-ego such as Modesty Ablaze is the perfect medium to do that.
But . . . I still hate listening to, or watching them back, more than once !!!
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P.s. – A big “thank you” to the lovely Sassy Cat for inspiring both my recording photo above, and my very first attempts at audio posting all those years ago.
Xxx- K
Go you! You are an example to us all – poster girl of putting yourself out there and not putting off things we want to do. Respect.
I do know what you mean as I do not think I am very social at all- though when I am with people they always comment about how social I am. I do agree having an alter ego helps at times xx
Oh don’t forget to link up to the linky f4tfriday tool 😉 xx
Oh yes . . . thank you for spotting that. My tecchhy man (Hubby) forgot to properly put everything together. He has . . . of course . . . been suitably punished !!!
Xxx – K
Oh that picture is perfect! I love it! I always, always, always hated the sound of my own voice then Bakji in his wisdom asked me to do the podcast with him and now when I listen back to myself I not only don’t mind my own voice but often think I’m quite hilarious (I’m also modest as you can tell, lol). So I would agree, sometimes just confronting those fears is the best way to move past them x
You sound so, so natural . . . and so, so at ease.
Simply wonderful . . . loving Episode 107 !!!
Xxx – K
What a fun post and what great advice. Thanks!