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Izzy, I’m truly sorry that you had this experience and I know that it seemed to be too embarrassing to face parishioners again, so I’m relieved that you’ve decided to continue reading. Best wishes for smoother readings ahead!
Previous posters gave you good advice, speaking from their own experiences, knowing that butterflies are bad enough when things go well, and stomach-churning when they don’t, but that’s part of life, and embarrassing moments are pretty normal during the teenage years; just “par for the course.”
Do NOT be ashamed! There is no reason to to be ashamed for something that was unintentional. You’re good! Flubs happen; that’s life. But no shame!
Everyone has a degree of anxiety in facing new things, and that’s doubly true for teenagers, but facing them and conquering them prepares the way for the next unknown. You’ll have less and less trepidation as time passes. Ten years from now, if you even can recall this event, you’ll look back at it and see it as just one of the many things that embarrassed you during your teen years and you’ll see your time as a Reader as an important part of the woman you’ve become.
(Just so you know, though, it helps immensely when the OP gives us all the info pertinent to a thread issue in the initial post.
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Izzy, I’m truly sorry that you had this experience and I know that it seemed to be too embarrassing to face parishioners again, so I’m relieved that you’ve decided to continue reading. Best wishes for smoother readings ahead!
Previous posters gave you good advice, speaking from their own experiences, knowing that butterflies are bad enough when things go well, and stomach-churning when they don’t, but that’s part of life, and embarrassing moments are pretty normal during the teenage years; just “par for the course.”
Do NOT be ashamed! There is no reason to to be ashamed for something that was unintentional. You’re good! Flubs happen; that’s life. But no shame!
Everyone has a degree of anxiety in facing new things, and that’s doubly true for teenagers, but facing them and conquering them prepares the way for the next unknown. You’ll have less and less trepidation as time passes. Ten years from now, if you even can recall this event, you’ll look back at it and see it as just one of the many things that embarrassed you during your teen years and you’ll see your time as a Reader as an important part of the woman you’ve become.
(Just so you know, though, it helps immensely when the OP gives us all the info pertinent to a thread issue in the initial post.
)
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