Diana--Confidence

Confidence is a key factor to success and happiness, and I believe it’s a characteristic people profoundly carry, either secretly or openly. The true definition of confidence is a feeling of self-assurance arising from one's appreciation of one's own abilities or qualities. For example, athletes are described as confident, one may ask why, and it’s simply from a continuous amount of compliments thrown at them based off their hard work. Although confidence can be mistakenly viewed by an individual’s appearance or how they carry themselves, it’s much deeper, it’s depended on self-acceptance of ones capabilities. Self-acceptance is only the beginning to this journey, for anyone, and most often people aren’t aware of their potentials until they are told or shown otherwise. My theory is people purposely hide their confidence because they don’t want to be portrayed as “conceited”, but that’s where we go wrong. We, humans can’t be mopping around society, rather than we have to be the inspiration for future generations. We have to show them anything is possible if they believe in themselves, but others also have to believe in us along that journey. Conceited is known to be highly self-centered, and in most cases these people aren’t willing to put in energy for others, rather than themselves. The great thing about confidence it’s like a stepping stool, it only rises an individual closer to their dreams, rather than those who constantly attack themselves, it is said we are our own worst enemy. Look at the wrestlers, sometimes they will be faced up with an opponent who is ten times bigger than them, but that doesn’t mean they’ll run away from their duty, it’s their job to walk onto the mat with confidence, and knowing they will win. Without will power, they will be destroyed within five seconds, because once a person has a set mindset then the body will begin to react alongside of it. Allowing negative ideas attack an individual’s goals only makes it harder to accomplish something that is only one step ahead of you. Positivity is similar to confidence for it is what holds the common ground and lifts up an individual’s spirits. But people have to keep a positive outlook because they know it will benefit them in the future. For example, I get tired of high school, having a job, and my involvement in extracurricular activities, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to give up and find an easier route, rather that I’m determined to continue managing all three with GPA average of 3.2, because I am determined to improve myself in any way possible, but I have also come to realization my personal self-confidence could be highly affected by my school work more so than my personal insecurities. And that’s when I learned I had to be more self-accepting, and obtain life is full of challenges with failure and accomplishments faced every day, and without having a sense of confidence there’s no happiness nor being content, and without that happiness there’s nothing worth fighting for.