Heya playa, we've all been there before.
You do something embarrassing and you hope that no one see's you or makes fun of you
for it but they still end up doing it so, how do you recover from those embarrassing
situations so they don't beat you down and make you feel awkward and just ruin your day.
Well, I have a few tips that I'm gonna share with you right after this.
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And when you look at that embarrassing moment that you experienced, it might feel like that
will stick with you forever.
But if you look at things in the grand scheme of it all, at the end of the day it won't
really matter.
You might be thinking "Ok that's fine but I don't live in the grand scheme of things.
I live in the here and the now and right now people are making fun of me for it so what
do I do?".
Well with embarrassing moments, the reason why they beat us up so much inside is because
we're unwilling to take ownership of them, looking at that situation and simply saying
"Yes, that's something I did and I accept it".
There are also different types of embarrassing situations, one may be something like you
trip and you fall and everyone laughs at you but then the other might be that you actively
take a picture of your crush without them knowing and then everyone finds out.
In the first situation, it'll be easy to laugh that one off because you're human and you
make mistakes, now that doesn't mean that people are just going to get over it.
People might come up with a nickname for you, people might think that you're going to make
that mistake again and it may take some time for you to feel like you can recover from
it.
But in the second example, when you're actively doing something and get caught and that ends
up being embarrassing, it's a little bit more difficult to recover because maybe you feel
a sense of shame for what you did.
So I would say one key thing to remember here is that people's reactions will change depending
on how you react to the situation.
So, if they see that you're willing to take things in a light-hearted way and you're able
to laugh them off, they're not gonna be as harsh and judgmental because they're gonna
see that it doesn't really bother you.
It's only when people see that you have a negative reaction to something that they want
to keep poking you just to get you angry.
If they see that doing that isn't going to work, well then they'll get bored and find
someone else to make fun of.
That's why I think taking ownership of that situation is crucial.
And that goes for any other type of embarrassing situation that you end up finding yourself
in.
If people see that you're willing to accept that thing and hey it happened and you're
willing to move on, then they're gonna kinda move forward along with you.
But let's get back to the situation where you do something embarrassing and now you're
ashamed of it because you got caught.
That one requires a little bit of a different kind of approach.
Maybe your parents caught you doing something or your teacher caught you cheating on a test
or maybe you just got into some kind of hijinx related to your crush and you're now just
like "uh, how do I approach this situation.
I'm so embarrassed".
Well, there is a level of ownership that has to take place here.
You have to accept that you actively chose to do that thing which ended up backfiring
on you.
That has to be the first step because if you're unwilling to accept it well then it's gonna
be hard for you to recover and learn from that experience.
And I think that's the most crucial piece here, beyond reconciling with anyone else
it's really accepting that you made a mistake but you're willing to learn and grow so that
you don't make that mistake again.
Depending on what you did, growing might take the form of apologizing to that person.
Letting them know that yeah, I made this mistake but I'm gonna do my best to not make this
mistake again.
Sometimes when people hear that from you, they're willing to be way more forgiving and
way more understanding of what happened.
And look, that's not to say this embarrassing situation is gonna get swept under the rug
and forgotten about, it may take time for that other people to come to trust you again.
Now if you want to learn more about how to deal with these embarrassing and awkward situations,
I go way more in depth on how to recover, how to talk to people about it, how to kind
of be comfortable with yourself in my new book "Embracing The Awkward".
I link it up over here so you can check it out if you want to pre-order it today.
And now I want to know, what do you think?
Have you ever been in an embarrassing situation that you felt was embarrassing to recover
from?
Leave your comments down below and we'll talk about it.
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