Embarassment

We've all played those games like truth or dare, or never have I ever. And we've almost always had something come out that has been embarrassing to us, at least a little bit. But what is it that really shames us years later? What are those certain aspects about actions and events that tend to bring the blood to our cheeks and make us avert our eyes?

Sometimes we look back on the people we knew, the people we were close to and have drifted away from in so many ways...we wonder why we ever thought they were worth our time, or we try to figure out what went wrong and why we can't still talk to them. We look back on the way we thought about things, the way we justified our actions, the reasons we played out in our heads. When we look back in time, we often find ourselves wondering how we could have been so naive, how we could have been so foolish as to do such a thing.

But in the end, we did. And now here we are, years later, looking back on it, half-smiling, half-cringing in shame, because of how much we have changed. We all have a past, and there is absolutely nothing that we can do about it. The best option is merely to remember what happened and accept it, but not let it control us in the present. Of course, that's much easier said than done...