Is staying in first gear at lights bad?

I’ve been riding for a while, I maintain my bike and all but wondering if this can hurt my clutch, at pretty much every light I’ll stay in 1st gear the other day I sat in neutral, as the light turned green my bike just wouldn’t into 1st, I kinda pooped my pants as traffic was waiting felt like the feeling of stalling when I was a beginner 😂, I walked the bike foward abit and it shifted, is this normal ?