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The Most Embarrassing Moment Of My Life
And what I learnt from it
**Note — this story was accepted into a publication, edited for grammatical “errors” and published. The editor criticised me for the high number (54 apparently) of “mis-spellings, typos and grammatical errors” in it. We then got into a discussion about Grammarly and they pulled it from their publication. Here I self-publish it in it original form. This is how I wanted to say all this.**
Some situations still make you cringe, years after they happened. We all have them. And the power they have over us is bigger than we think. The fact we still remember them tells you everything.
The amount of life-time you have experienced is immense, and a lot of it is the same stuff over and over, so for anything — good or bad — to stick, means something.
When bad memories stay they can leave scars, and mental scars don’t usually end up being helpful to us. They’re far more likely to trip us up — either by leading us to the same sub-optimal choices we made before, or by making us subconsciously avoid situations in fear of them going badly again.
Thinking about our own worst moments is tough, but useful. Join me as I exorcise an embarrassment ghost…
