ere a shade of pale gray: with no voice, no action, and no personality. Know who you are and what to do and how to say it. Discover yourself, because that is confidence. Voice your thoughts without fear, because that is confidence. Have faith in your actions and in yourself; thats confidence too. People dont fail because they never succeeded; they fail because they had no confidence to speak, no confidence to act, no confidence to find themselves. You only truly fail when you never try! I knew Id have to stare them down, these butterflies. I force words to my mouth with the faith that they strike as intended. I trust that I have the character to stand here and tell you to find yours. And I am here because of that decisiveness for which I paid such a high price. And in the face of all this () confidence () I have gathered, the butterflies have vanished....
