Today we had an awareness campaign in a management college in Belapur. It was a really good experience for PAL as well as for me personally.
For the first time in my life, I was honoured as the chief guest in a function for doing something I loved. We were asked to meet the director and they even let me use his washroom!
I entered the fancy seminar hall on the second floor and for a minute I had my heart in my mouth. The room was full of people!
I remember giving presentations and speeches to such a large audience in school and college. Times were different then, I had time to write and prepare a speech and by heart it and then speak on the d day. Normally, I always received a prize as well. My parents were happy.
However, I have grown up now. No more prizes. No more speech writers. No more nothing. I am pretty much on my own now.
I looked around and told myself - This is the one thing you can do and you do not need to be prepared for this. After all it is what you believe in.
I went on the stage. The first few slides, I was a little slow and kept wondering if people were actually listening or not and was doing the ummm..and hmmm...and yea and like language quite a bit.
As the slides moved on, my confidence increased and I was all over it..started expressing better.
I stopped fumbling for words and somehow the words came out by themselves.
I spoke about death, killing, adoption, pregnancy, how heinous society is in reality, our lack of understanding our own problems, abortion, getting fixed, mating, breeding, sex and last but not the least I shouted out prostitution as well. It was a truly liberating experience. There was applause, there were ahs and oohs from the crowd and silence and I could see they were all listening to each and every word. Coudn't have asked for more!
All in all, I can definitely say that it was an awesome experience.
Many people came up to me after the session, introduced themselves and wanted to know more.
Hope there are more such opportunities. I really enjoyed it :)
For the first time in my life, I was honoured as the chief guest in a function for doing something I loved. We were asked to meet the director and they even let me use his washroom!
I entered the fancy seminar hall on the second floor and for a minute I had my heart in my mouth. The room was full of people!
I remember giving presentations and speeches to such a large audience in school and college. Times were different then, I had time to write and prepare a speech and by heart it and then speak on the d day. Normally, I always received a prize as well. My parents were happy.
However, I have grown up now. No more prizes. No more speech writers. No more nothing. I am pretty much on my own now.
I looked around and told myself - This is the one thing you can do and you do not need to be prepared for this. After all it is what you believe in.
I went on the stage. The first few slides, I was a little slow and kept wondering if people were actually listening or not and was doing the ummm..and hmmm...and yea and like language quite a bit.
As the slides moved on, my confidence increased and I was all over it..started expressing better.
I stopped fumbling for words and somehow the words came out by themselves.
I spoke about death, killing, adoption, pregnancy, how heinous society is in reality, our lack of understanding our own problems, abortion, getting fixed, mating, breeding, sex and last but not the least I shouted out prostitution as well. It was a truly liberating experience. There was applause, there were ahs and oohs from the crowd and silence and I could see they were all listening to each and every word. Coudn't have asked for more!
All in all, I can definitely say that it was an awesome experience.
Many people came up to me after the session, introduced themselves and wanted to know more.
Hope there are more such opportunities. I really enjoyed it :)
