Fear?! Just do it!

After two years of studying in Phd, one of my friends in UIA presented her Phd proposal. Few days before her presentation day, I went to her house in Shah Alam since I was there for an appointment with an officer from human resource department. She looks really pale that time (may be she didn’t get enough sleep) and her mind seems wandering somewhere. She didn’t do much talking except saying many times that she was too anxious to present her proposal. Even though, I haven’t gone through the process (proposal presentation) but I think I do understand her feeling and her fear.

Giving presentation for PhD proposal (defending the proposal) could be an "earthquake"! I can imagine that all eyes are focusing on you and on what you're going to say. Those eyes belong to Professors and the so called experts in the related field. The problem is that they're not simply watching and listening. There are "bullets" waiting for you at the end of your presentation and you must have a good shield to protect yourself. However, taking it positively, whether it's painful or not, those bullets are good for you to move on.

In the morning before she presented her proposal I got her sms to me telling me how fear she was and asked me to pray for her. I told her the the fear will never go away. It will always be there. The only way to defeat the fear is to go out and do it, presenting your proposal. (It is easy to advice others than to be done on our own. Ha3x)

I got her call at 8.00 p.m on that day. From the excitement tone of her voice I knew she did well on her proposal presentation. She was not asked with too many questions on her proposal and the presentation went smoothly than she ever imagined (I told you, you can go through your fear and handle whatever comes your way). I really remembered that she said she felt like wanted to hug everybody. Well….. you don’t need to hug me now or belanja me makan, but please pray for me that can go through all the Phd process smoothly like you too. Amin…