You showed up. Hadn’t you done it, you would be beating yourself up now for feeling like a coward. I heard somewhere that cowards die a million times, and the brave just one. You took the chance, things happened the way they happened and next time should be less scary now. It takes a while to get you to feel comfortable, but there is only one way of finding out how long it will be. If anyone dares to try to laugh at your speech and then claims that you don’t have thick skin, remember this feeling and remember moments like this, when even just showing up requires an specially thick skin and believing in yourself. You are braver than you are aware of.