It Will Only End In Tears If You Take Yourself Too Seriously

We've all been there. You’re having what seems like a pretty decent day.

The sun is splitting the sky. You are happy with how you look and feel. Everything appears to be going well.

Then suddenly, out of nowhere, you are stricken down by a deep sense of self-embarrassment.

It might be an old photograph, a memory you’d rather remained forgotten. But instead of a warm, pleasant Niagara of nostalgia cascading over you, a cold and sobering torrent of unbearable awkwardness descends.

You relive the moment, not as you actually experienced it, but from the vantage points of all the others you are sure bore witness to it. The stranger who pretended not to see you when you slipped ungraciously on a busy high street. The price tag someone kindly reminded you was still hanging shoddily off your cheap suit. The outfit you thought daring that was actually horrendously ill-fitting.

It doesn’t bear thinking about, does it?