This is what fear can do, chok you and takes your voice away, to get your voice back it takes discipline and practice, which is not easy to most of us.
When you don’t have a voice, you hide, you struggle to look anyone in the eyes because of all that you have been, through,
Good Evening my fellow toastmasters and guests welcome to our VETC where entrepreneurs are trained to succeed.
Life is like being in a fighting ring.
From the day you were conceived the training started, to fight for life, for your voice, your rights and your beliefs.
Growing up I got in a lot of trouble, and that created a lot of blame, some times I got blamed even without doing anything. And in my culture it’s said when adult speaks, young persons do not respond, even though the adult was wrong.
In my language we say ” omukulu bwayogera omuto tadamu”
please let us say it together “omukulu bwayogera omuto tadamu.”
I remember my first time attempting to defend myself, It didn’t go well, I was told that I was very disrespectful. But I felt very good and from that time I told my self 4 things, I will defend myself whenever necessary, I will keep my own feelings, views to myself and I will fight by myself to achieve my dreams.
Fear to respond to anything, I kept my views