"Why Not?"

I was glad that I went to today's meeting; I listened to two great speeches, got the chance to do a table topic, and there was a very lively and fun atmosphere.  The theme of the meeting was to "step out of your comfort zone" and I related with it because just joining this club was a big step out of my comfort zone.  The first speaker's objective was to give a motivational speech and she did a great job.  She told the story of how her son never played sports after his early childhood and then he suddenly decided to play rugby during his senior year, one of the roughest sports there is.  When she asked why he wanted to start playing this dangerous sport, he just shrugged and said, "Why not?" and he had a great time.  The overall message was to not be afraid to try new things even if you have doubts going in to it.  The speech inspired me and it was probably my favorite speech that has been given since I joined Toastmasters.

The table topics portion of the meeting was very unique.  Instead of just one person getting called up and answering a question, we were called in pairs and we had to pretend like we were doing a TV talk show interview.  One person got the topic and had to think of questions to ask the other person who was the interviewee.  I was the interviewer (which was lucky because I didn't have to talk as much) and most of the topics were very humorous so it was easy to think of ideas and have a conversation.  This definitely helped me get "eased in" to table topics more because I wasn't up there all alone but I still had to talk in front of everyone and think on the fly.

All in all it was a great meeting and I plan to continue stepping out of my comfort zone in the future.