Overcoming fear

keira Burton

“Why me? Why did everyone make a mockery of me?” He was completely lost in thought when his father stepped in.

“Nolan! Nolan !!”

His father tapped his shoulder. He got relieved from his deep thought and bowed to greet his father.

“What are you thinking?”

“Daddy, why was I created differently? Am I not just the same as my peers in school? Why do people like to laugh at me?”

His father smiled, carried him, put him on his lap, and said, My boy, do you know why you are named Nolan? Because you are made to be a champion, and you are destined to succeed.

But how?

You need to believe in yourself; you were created to be a champion. Your peers laughed at you because you were made to be the head.

This word gave Nolan relief from his worries, and he decided to cheer up. His father gave him a big hug and kissed him on his forehead.

Nolan seems to be shy and a stammering one who finds it challenging to put himself together when he talks; this makes his peers make a mockery of him. He lost his mother at a tender age, which made his elder brother live a wayward life. Their father has been the one taking good care of them.

But one day, Nolan's class teacher announced to the class that the next day, everyone in the class would be speaking about their role model.

Nolan decided, in his mind, not to participate in the task. He felt that the best way to avoid the task was to stay at home, pretending not to feel too well so that his father could allow him to start at home.

The next day, when Nolan woke up in the morning, he observed that his father was awake. Then he began to shiver, pretending that he was feeling cold, holding his stomach in the sense that he was having a stomach. Then he screamed and said, “Daddy, I'm dying. Come for my help.” His father then rushed to his room to see what was wrong with him.

His father gave him some drugs to take. Nolan collected the drug and placed it under his tongue, pretending that he had taken the drug. As his father stepped out of his room, he spilled out the drug and placed it under his bed. He got back to bed and slept.

This brought a lot of worry to his father, who seemed to be anxious, thinking about what to do for his son, who had felt a little strong. He made up his mind that Nolan would not go to school that day; he would stay at his neighborhood house. His father told him about it. Nolan felt so happy that he was going to escape that very day's presentation. He escaped that day.

The following day, when he got to school, his class teacher called him suddenly and told him to come out and tell them who he was. He got scared, shivering all of a sudden. His classmates started mocking him, but his class teacher punished them for that.

His class teacher told him, You can do it; you’ll make the best of it.

When he got home that very day, his father was already at home, who had gone so deep in thinking. Placing his manageable shoe on the table, Nolan sat on his soft chair facing his father and said,

"Daddy, can you please tell me more about yourself?”

He looked at him with a wonderful eye and said,

Son, why do you ask?

"You are my hero, who has always inspired me when I am depressed. You are the best, Dad."

This statement prompts his father to tell Nolan about himself and how he was once like him, but he developed him through a commitment to trying things even when others laughed at him.

When Nolan has the story of his father, he decides to get ready to participate in telling the whole class who his hero is.

The next day, he got to school with readiness to give a fair trial to tell the entire class who was his real hero. His class teacher called him to do so.

When he was about to talk, he took a deep breath, just as his father taught him. He gave an excellent speech that seemed wonderful to his peers and to his class teacher. His teacher videos it and sends it to his father to see the exceptional speech his son rendered to his classmate. Everyone stood up to give him applause for his presentation.

Nolan felt so happy and excited to see his classmates clapping for him. It was a trip of fair trial that made him overcome his worry and anxiety about himself

When he got home from school, his father also brought a gift for him.

Ever since then, Nolan began to try his best to present a speech or partake in a presentation to his classmates.