I don’t know what happened today. I think I got bamboozled by the judges. Or maybe they stared at me way too much. Or I guess I got tongue-tied. Whatever the reason was, I still cannot console myself as to why I went down from a rank 1 to a rank 42 in the internal debate competition that was held in my university today.
It was a terrible feeling that I experienced when I walked out of the classroom, after having completed my debate. My heart ached badly as I realised that there is a lot of chance that I won’t be able to debate this year. One of my friends found me crying and hugged me hard, as a result of which a lot of students came to know that I had screwed up big time. I went up to my room and locked myself up. I called up my sister, a couple of friends and even checked my horoscope for the day. I just couldn’t believe that I had fared so poorly.
One of my friends told me that such things happen in life. He said that we fail to succeed again. Yes last time I was indeed the best debater in the university and maybe this year things didn’t work out. When I checked the rank list, I saw that there were a lot of good speakers who didn’t make it through. Some of them were depressed while the rest gave too hoots and pushed the thing aside. Yeah! A bad rank doesn’t make you a bad speaker or a bad debater. It only shows that you should have put in more effort.
Hence I use this forum to tell all the participants who didn’t get selected in the IUDC- Do not be discouraged. You are still the best.
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