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Did something dumb. How do people get over embarrassment?
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The title sums it up.
It's nothing really bad and I apologized for it but now I can't stop thinking about it. Any funny stories anybody willing to share about getting over awkward moments?
It's nothing really bad and I apologized for it but now I can't stop thinking about it. Any funny stories anybody willing to share about getting over awkward moments?
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If anyone does bring it up then you can shrug and smile and tell them it seemed like a good idea at the the time.
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But...It would help to tell us what happened if you want anything deeper than that.
See, I remember I was featured on a website as like one of the "hot guys of the week" type things, that I didn't know I was going to be on (my girlfriend sent in a picture) and good lord my guy friends thought it was funny. And at first I genuinely worried about it because I felt stupid but like other have said, time heals all wounds.
If it doesn't, there'll be a point (and you'll know when) to just address it directly. Given I don't know WHAT you did, but shit happens, try your best to keep your mind on it. And honestly, if I learned anything from living in England, sometimes it's best to just joke about it if it comes up, because it's better to laugh WITH other people about it instead of retreating.
Leave it a few days. Make a self-deprecating joke about it with the other person. Start worrying about the next Dumb Thing you will have inevitably done by then because you know, we're all human and do dumb stuff all the time.
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You'll forget about it, and then you'll remember, and then you'll forget about it, repeat until presumably on your deathbed they all hit you at once and do you in for good
Life is a series of embarrassing moments, don't worry there'll be another one soon enough
It was embarrassing, and at the time I was a bit mortified mostly because it took me a bit to extricate myself, but it really was funny and nobody cared. I guess if you streaked around your office while drunk that may stick with you a bit longer, but at least in that case you probably made someone's day less boring.
I guess if no one embarrassed themselves ever, life would probably be pretty dull.
this ended poorly because I stabbed myself in the leg. afterwards I was embarrassed, but also hated myself because my mother lectured me, saying how I could easily hurt- or done worse- to my brother.
do I still think what I did was dumb? hell yeah. but I don't beat myself up over it because it helped me grow as a person and make smarter decisions (and also instilled a healthy fear of knives).
Ready...go (I already did one, you don't get TWO you damn heathens)
I still do the same thing where I think of dumb stuff I did in highschool and just cringe.
You have nothing to be embarrassed about
I Agree... it seems the only option is Seppuku
On a serious note. Everyone have embarssing moments in their lives.. the important thing for you to do is the learn from the experience and never do that again
P.S. Obligatory "Tell us what you did!!!"
Does that count? It was one of the most awesome stories posted on this forum to date. You should post it again, refresh people's memories.
Probably not though.
After work was over, I shared drinks with my boss at the bar, and he told me the story that I always call on when I do something stupid.
"Someone scared the shit out of me," he said.
My boss is a man from Greece, right off the boat. He told me of a time when he was outside of Athens around one in the morning trying to pick up a beautiful lady at a bar. He was doing pretty good, apparently, because they were sitting in his car listening to Greek music. He had his eyes closed, listening to a native serenade over the radio, until he heard the woman gasp. He opened his eyes to see her looking out his driver's side window, and when he turned around he caught the glimpse of a blurry fist before everything went black.
He didn't know she had a boyfriend.
He awoke the next morning to find himself still in his seat, the woman and mysterious fist long gone, and passersby holding their breath, guffawing, and laughing incessantly as they pointed at him. Confused and in a slump, he tried to sit up straight, but could not. At this time, the smell had hit him along with the sight of his ass spot-welded to the carseat via his own shit that had anally erupted from the night before.
"No, literally, someone scared the shit out of me."
He then told me of the next two hours sneaking into his parents' house only to be busted by his mother, forced to explain why defecating in his nice clothes and father's car was not intended. Poor slob.
So yeah, that story got me through that and anything else that happened afterwards.