An act of discourage..?

     As human beings, when we're surrounded by people that are older than ourselves, people that are more experienced and more skilled than ourselves we tend to forget that they are just like us. They face ups and downs in their lives, they always do. Being older and more experienced does not take humanity out of the context because in the end of the day, they still have that little human instinct that makes them nervous and hesitant at some point.

     Earlier today, a group of people had to pitch in their innovative ideas and gain the judges trust and appeal. The hall was filled with people with different passions, different ideas, different goals and levels. There were employees, professors and students. However, in that room, everyone had that goal of wanting to be "it". Personally speaking, our group had no intention of really being "it", we were too busy trying to comprehend how we made it this far and its quite astonishing to this instant. The only reason we decided to go with this weekend's program is to continue what we started and see where we go from there. Luckily, it was one of those grand experiences that you do not get to experience everyday. The best part of it, we were presenting in front of different groups of people, with different backgrounds and different perspectives.

     The one thing that got me worked up after our pitch presentation was that one of the professors was devastated and already pessimistic. Man, that was not the idea. You're supposed to stand strong regardless of what your pitching in front of the panel, well at least have that solid confidence that you made it this far so that's more than enough . Looking at the bright side, you actually made it to this level, so personally speaking that's quite impressive, but for you to fall weak and suddenly discourage yourself right before pitching, that wasn't the best approach.

     The biggest shock of the day is that person making it through to the top x people, that got us thinking maybe the entire "discourage" act was maybe a game? Nah, it was serious and it was sincere so there was no act in it all.

Poor man though, he got himself worked out for nothing.

Bless you have a little more faith. :')