It’s not so much that it is a particularly busy day ahead of me today, actually, but that I stayed up past midnight watching Netflix with my wife and I’m required to do something (slightly) outside of my comfort zone today.
The Netflix show was a movie called “Andhadhun”. It is really really good. Apparently. I actually feel asleep quite early on; because I was exhausted, not because the movie was dull. But my wife watched it through. I was unfortunate enough to wake about a 1/2 hour before it finished (which happened to be about 1/2 an hour past midnight). My wife insisted that the movie was so good that I not watch the last 1/2 hour, but watch the whole thing properly another time — so then I had to try and ignore this incredibly good movie playing in the background. I fortunately was able to sleep again not long after it finished.
The thing outside of my comfort zone is to give a talk this afternoon, to an aviation audience, about blockchain. I developed stage fright somewhere around the beginning of my teens. I actually remember it pretty well — I was raised a Christian — well, 1/2 Christian (mother) and 1/2 atheist (father), but as a pre-teen I was still attending church — and I was doing a reading from the bible at the pulpit, and suddenly I was so embarrassed to be up there, and I began falling over my words and I just couldn’t do it — I mean, I guess I got to the end of the reading, but I confidently recall it being a disaster.
I’m better these days — I’ve had the opportunity to practice my public speaking a little in the past couple of years and I can do it now. I’m not a great public speaker, but I think I’m OK. I don’t expect a huge audience this evening either.
I need to leave to take my step son to school in about 10 minutes. He mostly lives with his father in a town about a half hours drive away, and that’s where he goes to school too. I’m going to be working in a near by suburb today anyway so that is convenient today. And where I’m working is also where I’m going to be giving the talk.
So I’m actually going to stop this piece here and now.
I hope you have yourself a good day today, dear reader.
I wish you the joy and comfort that comes of successfully facing a fear and coming out the other side knowing you are a bit bigger than you thought.
And if it is a busy day for you; may you make it through safely, and treat yourself to some late night Netflix on the other end.
Good day ! :)
