“When an individual who lacks preparation is faced with strict expectations, the individual will begin to focus on avoiding the situation, which leads to loss of self-confidence.”
An explanation to the connection from the visual, and general idea of my thesis statement; in addition to, the development of the thesis from personal experience.
When an individual who lacks preparation is faced with strict expectations, the individual will avoid the situation, having a fear of consequence, which results in the lack of self-confidence. The photo illustrated goes to show the impact of avoidance as result from lacking preparation to fulfil expectations. The photo shows an individual who struggles to face the consequences of expectations not being fulfilled. The individual, in the visual, is in a dark room that represents their state of mind and discomfort. They hide away from the challenge they are facing, expectations, in fear of consequences of not fulfilling them. They avoid it as they fear the consequences that previously happened to them when they did not fulfil expectations. However, the individual could also be frightened due to never having experienced what it is like to face the consequences. Due to that, the individual will hide away to avoid the consequences. In addition, the visual includes an alternative, the colourful and bright room which represents a second chance; an individual may face the consequences without avoidance leading to another chance, however, their fear would hold them back and take it as a big risk to overcome. As a result, the individual remains to avoid the situation in fear of consequence. It goes to show how an individual feels when they are in this situation, an individual may feel unconfident to build the courage in order to face consequences. Something to add is that when an individual finds themselves in a difficult position where they are caught attempting to avoid the situation. Due to lack of experience, an individual will create lies or excuses since they do not have the sense of courage to face consequence. As a result, this brings the individual to have a bigger loss in their self-confidence. If an individual does not want to face the deep consequence of the loss of self-confidence, it is better to admit the mistake of not fulfilling expectations and to learn from it; compared to avoiding the situation whereas an individual will dread to admit the consequence, and continually lie in efforts to not face the consequences. To connect this, I have provided my own experience growing up.
When I had faced the lack of preparations when encountering expectations, I would find myself unable to encourage myself to face the consequence. The consequences I dread was feeling discomfort as a result of embarrassment and humiliation. Growing up, the process of procrastination would always play out when I had to follow expectations. Most of the time, I would move those expectations as a last minute task; however, it would be left incomplete. As a result, this ended with me lacking the preparation to follow-up with expectations. Fearing the consequence, I pushed myself out of the situation in hopes of the situation being resolved or forgotten. However, a downtrend in my self-confidence started to occur. This led to me unable to allow myself to encourage myself to admit my mistake, even if it was the right thing to do. If an individual were to find me not following expectations, I would still not be able to encourage myself to admit it; as a result, beginning to make lies to get myself out of the situation. Avoiding the situation helps me to not feel worried about punishment and allows me to stay comfortable; however it would become more difficult to encourage myself to admit my mistakes later on.
If you want to continue building your self-confidence, it is better to face the mistake of not following expectations. As a result, you will feel more encouraged and less-fearful of admitting your mistake.
Image Used:
Image 1: “Confidence Is about Expectations: Expect to Do Your Best.” JenningsWire, 1 May 2013, www.jenningswire.com/business/confidence-is-about-expectations-expect-to-do-your-best/. Accessed 19 Sept. 2021.
Image 2: Program, The Fighting Back Mentor. “Fighting Back Mentor Program: What Do You Think?: Sneaking Out.” Fighting Back Mentor Program, 21 Nov. 2011, fightingbackmentorprogram.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-do-you-think-sneaking-out.html. Accessed 19 Sept. 2021.
