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Originally Posted by Vampyre
That's a really good point ya know. I personally beleive taht is indeed a fear of letting someone down. And while I was reading your post I came to see that perhaps Mr herriman, Eduardo and Coco nagging him about it and reminding him how bad it was didn't really help. At times it's best to forget about the past, because form what we've heard what happened the previous year at teh pageant was pretty terrible, and must have been absolutely humiliating for Wilt.
I remember last year I had to get up in front of my whole school and sing while another girl I know played the keyboard. it was my job to not only sing but to turn the pages, and i forgot to turn the page, so I got a little ahead of the song, then I had to go back turn page and repeat the last few words. This through me completely off, so i lost where I was on the page and forgot the words. So now, I cringe everytime I see the recording my parents made, but they tell me to watch it anyway. So now, I always worry about singing in front of crowds.
With Wilt, I'm sure that reminding him of what happened last year made him panic more, because as he would walk on stage he would start getting these nagging voices in his head going "Do NOT screw up!" or something, then that leads to the year before's happenings. Even though Wilt is probably the most optimistic character I have ever heard of, he can still be rather pessimistic about him self, leading him to slip, then panic about slipping and then getting everything wrong.
So I beleive it wasn't just Wilt's need to please, but the fact that although they were only doing it for the best, his friends kept on nagging him.
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I'm tending to think that way too, that it was more a fear of messing up and disappointing the others, and perhaps reflecting badly on Foster's, than it was an actual case of stage fright. Wilt is such an outgoing individual that it's difficult to believe he'd simply be afraid of talking or performing in front of a crowd. With him, it was more like he was thinking, "I can't mess up, 'cause I will be letting everyone at Foster's down if I do, and they'll hate me just like my boy does". The more he worried about messing up, the worse he DID mess up, though apparently, the others thought it was because he'd failed to study and memorize his lines.
I can only imagine the anguish he must have felt, added to what he was already harboring in secret, about his "performances" on stage both years as MC of the pageant, feeling that he'd once again let someone down who was depending on him.
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