So welcome to the blog of Joseph Clough. My name's Joseph Clough and now today I want to talk to you about the meaning of life. So I'm going to start this very, very small subject.

And as always, I'm going to tell you it's tell you straight really my thoughts about the world.

And as I've said in the past, it doesn't really matter because you're not there to disagree or anything.

So I'm just going to just really give you my thoughts and my experience.

And by doing so and tackling this small subject of the meaning of life, I want to tell you a bit about my life.

Now, as a child, I was very, very shy.

I was very, very self-conscious. I didn't really feel as if I was being me, but I just couldn't help myself being this anxious person, this anxious

child. Even to the point where I wouldn't really interact with people around me, I was known as the shy guy.

Even when it came to talking to my relatives, very, very shy.

Shying away in the background and just really not wanting to be up there.

Now on the back of my mind, I always knew I wanted to be a confident person, but I didn't know how.

It was like a part of my identity was being shy.

And over the years, going through more situations of being shy, it became my identity, you could say.

It's like I brought into the fact that this is who I am, I am a shy person.

And as time went on, it actually had an effect on my school,

because not on my school itself, but on my school work

and my development within school and secondary school.

Because when you think about it, if you're shy or you don't feel good enough, or you have

a low self-esteem, or if you have anxiety and you feel self-consciousness like I did, you

then begin to doubt your ability, the ability to work hard, to be good at school, to be able to act out certain things.

It has an effect in your whole life because like your identity dictates your thoughts.

So your beliefs about yourself dictate your thoughts.

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