Embaressing Moments

Ahh.. how we love the experiences of embaressing moments. I've had 2 in the past month, but the inspiration to post this blog is mainly from the latest embaressing moment that occured.

I was at youth with 6 other adolescents that also attend this gathering every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month. We were playing a game where the chairs are set up in a circle, and everyone is sitting down except for one person who stands in the middle of the circle and asks a question or makes a statement (for example, 'Your favourite colour is purple'). Anyone who agrees with that statement is to depart the chair that they are sitting on and find another one.

As I go to move to another chair as a declaration of my agreement with the statement, I sit down on the new chair and suddenly feel myself going backwards. I let out a pitiful, girly shriek, (which was probably more embaressing than the whole situation put together) and for the grand finale smashed my head onto the table that was situated behind my chair.

It wasn't too long ago that I had another embaressing moment. I even remember the date. It was June the 1st and all the year 8 students were in the city, learning about journalism and the printing of newspapers. Our first stop was the State Library and we all got off the bus and casually began walking to the entrance. I noticed that some members from another school were focusing on us. Maybe they were scrutinizing our uniforms. Anyway, I go to walk up the stairs towards the entrance, ironically thinking that I needed to be extremely poised because people my age from another school were watching. Instead, I slipped on the concrete and fell on my face. Pretty clutzly move. I mean, who slips on concrete? That's got to take some skill.

Luckily my hands were there to save my fall from being disasterous, but the bag I was carrying on my back was pretty heavy. Also, not many people saw, which wasn't a bad thing either. Although, I did hear some boys that were sitting on the steps where I fell laughing in hysterics.

I've learnt over the years that when you have an embaressing moment the best thing to do is laugh it off and think positively about it. In the long run no matter what you do to try and stop them from occuring, it's not going to guarantee that they won't happen. After all, no one's perfect. Plus later on it makes for a fairly amusing story to tell!