On stage. My story on performing in stage.

 Well, all this started back when I was in 5th grade. I was sort of a shy kid and have never performed anywhere. I had some classmates whom I can call friends. So there was going to be the Annual Day of the school, a celebration only held one time in a year. Students were curious and were waiting for it. I was too, I mean I have never participated in any program but I was curious at-least for the no study day thing.

Among friends I was a funny guy. They've advised me to start a channel in You Tube which I had and it didn't worked, there was less than 200 people visited in a year and my parents didn't wanted me to do that so I left it.

So in 5th grade there was a chance to do something, I've totally ruined myself thinking all the time about performing there at the stage. I told my friends about it 4 of them thought of it as a great idea and the rest of them said no. I was actually leading them and I made jokes and write it down on paper for all of us. 

We enrolled ourselves and started training. It was hard, I mean I've been a lazy kid but now it was work. We trained our best and for us it was very funny, we would even laugh ourselves while doing it. 

Finally the day came when we have to perform. I was much more nervous than anyone else because as I said I was shy. So how it went ? Well very bad, very very bad. In first we were nervous and were forgetting our lines. Those jokes we thought were funny were not funny because we wanted people laugh in them and they didn't. Finally our play was over and the audience has not laughed that much we've expected of.   

We were not happy, I mean I was leading them so everything was I think my responsibility. Every single one of us knew that it went bad but anybody was not yelling that for the sake of our hard balanced motivation. Finally I said it and we were totally sad and our other classmates made few pointed commented points on us. 

That year Passed.

Finally it was Annual day of 6th grade and I was excited again but my team was not they were actually demotivated and didn't wanted to do it again. The thing I understood at that time was As a leader how hard it is to communicate a vision. I had a vision of our performance in that year, and I was committed to not repeat mistakes. I did learned a lot from there. Finally I was successful in convincing my team and with a new script and motivation we started it again. 

And the day came, we were good and had a nice sort of gathering in the very beginning of the program. We did it and this time it worked, I was filled with happiness. We received awards and people were laughing a lot. My team was very very happy and all that was because of the hard work we had did. I can't express my feeling of that moment, I could see little kids, parents, teachers, students and everyone on the hall laughing hardly and at that moment I saw myself amazing, something the shy me would have never thought about it helped me a lot in my next achievements I had in academics which had nothing to do with that performance, but it was helpful. I was no longer shy and I felt as if I could take responsibility and lead.

One of the best things I learned there was how to lead and don't give up. The year we failed didn't went so well and some of my friends were even angry with me. But we didn't gave up and tried as best as we could. Going to leading, I have learned how to listen to everyone and make decision while making sure that everyone's contribution and thoughts matters. I have learned how to lead.

After that we performed the next year and it went even better. My team was glad to have me and I was glad to have them. The next year some other team or our seniors wanted to perform because they thought it was so cool because people were laughing a lot. But our teachers and juniors stopped them. They wanted to see us, our class-teacher told me that now the program was nothing without us. Parents had told some teachers that they were only here to see us.

We performed the next year as well. Which was 4 time performances from which 3 had went successful. And I left that school in 9th grade. They were crying but it was good. I have learned a lot from it. Now it was time to say bye, and the next year my friends which were at that school left it as well. I don't know how it will go there. They have not celebrated annual day since then because of Covid-19 and when it recovers I don't know how it will be like.

The thing I want to convey here is that you are happy when you're happy but you become 10X more happy when you make other people happy.