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To friends. This is a respond post to one of the inspiring topic where the author had wrote: "I think anyone can overcome their stutter if they work hard enough". I want to start by saying: I **know** anyone can overcome their stutter if they work hard enough. Come this August I will be turning thirty and I have lived most of my thirty years on this planet in an absurd fantasy. A fantasy where I will magically stopped stuttering one day simply because the universe has seem me struggled enough. I use to hate myself in the morning for my stuttering and hating the fanciful day for not come soon enough, but **I never hated the part of me that never took any action to make the change.** Only thirty years later, I can truly be proud of who I am, that I am a much confident speaker than I was because at some point of those thirty years one of me begin to take actions. A me who attended public speaking sessions with crimson faces; a me who bleed for practice speaking on the daily bases with three stones in the mouth; a me who spoke in classes; and a me who seek conversations with total strangers. There were firm humiliations and daunting uneasiness in the due process of all those actions, but my only regret is not having to done them sooner. Let us not wallow in the valley of hatred and despair! Everyone has a battle fight and ours is not the worst. Change is difficult, and the first step is always hardest. But so is the second step and the third and every step afterwards. We cannot escape humiliations and embarrassments, it is our destiny. Instead of being bullied and haunted by them, we should embrace them. As the proverb goes: **Keep your friends close and your enemies closer!** Let us cast away our ego and vanity and accept our stuttering self. **Get humiliated in front of ten people today, tomorrow you will win back your pride in front of a thousand!!** There are billions of poor strangers out there with no bearing powers to affect our lives in anyway. Use them to our advantage and embarrass ourselves in front of them, give them a good story to lighten their day whilst we are at it. Every lose can be a win! Go talk to your local grocery receptionist and ask him/her about the rotting apple in the basket! Take the twenty minute to inquire about the things that you are never going to buy in the shop you are never going back! Come back tomorrow or any day after and share us your actions and embarrassments as friends. I eagerly awaits.