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I used to get pretty bad stage fright, when I first started participating in "public events". I did some amateur musicals, theatre, and also played in a few bands. I was the singer, which is always the most exposed member! I get more stage fright in theatre than playing in a band. The crowds are bigger, and I actually shake. I just can't help it. After I get into the spirit of it, it goes away. Also with singing, the more experience I get, the less scared of exposing myself I get also. I become more confident in what I do. The funny thing is, you'd never think I'd like to do these sorts of activities, because as I have said on TFP before, I am an introvert. On that personality test that's on the board, I'm an INFJ, and recently I retook the test and got 100% introverted. But I still love to perform. Weird...but good. The best part of feeling nervous is once it starts to subside and you feel that it's all going to be great.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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