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I am so stupid!
This has been a busy week for me and today I got ready to go for dinner, on the wrong day! I’m a hard working busy high school student and usually I turn down these things but I was like, “Hey why not! I’m anti-social and for once I’m going to give it a try.” But things didn’t turn out as planned and I couldn't get a drive home at all and spent like a long time getting dressed up! A nice lady working at the hotel offered to drive me home.
I was stressing for school and I have these entire deadline to meet this week and on the invite I thought it said today Tuesday but it's actually next week Tuesday and I just feel ashamed and embarrassed.
I'm forever thankful of the lady that offered to drive me home but I'll feel so embarrassed when i see her there again next week (she's a clerk). And I'm not letting my efforts today go to waste so I'll just re-wear the whole outfit next week.
But I've wasted 4 hours (almost 2 hours waiting outside for a ride in the cold) of my time when if it wasn't for my stupidity I could have gotten one of my projects completed! People make mistakes but, I just can’t seem to focus on anything because the only thing I keep hearing in my head is STUPID STUPID STUPID and I'm going to be haunted by it for a week and I just feel so humiliated! Is there anything at all that I can do to get away from this? It's so depressing.
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You need to forgive yourself. This won't be the last time you have a "senior moment"! That's life! Don't be so serious about it. This is a funny story! So instead of keeping it to yourself in case you are humiliated, tell someone! Make it a funny story. "Oh, you'll never guess what I did last week....thank goodness for the nice lady at the hotel. Geez, I'm such a space cadet sometimes!" You'll be surprised how much less embarrassment you feel when you tell it in a humorous way. And you'll be even more surprised when others will be inspired to start telling you THEIR embarrassing stories. As for the lady at the hotel. No need to be ashamed. Bring a little thank you note with you. If you see her, smile and bring her the card and say "Thank you for your help last week. Would you believe I actually had the WRONG day! Gosh, I felt so dumb!" Again, I bet you'll get encouragement and not humiliation. Please don't be so hard on yourself. Simple mistake. But you can turn it into an asset by letting it become a "story" in your little bag of stories you'll inevitably need to pull out in social situations as you get older. Its OKAY! This is a funny thing, not a stupid thing. Embrace that and move on. And enjoy the dinner.
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you need to learn to laugh at your own mistakes. call up the person you were supposed to meet, or mention it next week in a story: "yeah, so you wouldn't BELIEVE what i did last week! it was so dumb!" and just kinda laugh it off. yeah, people make mistakes. but the only reason you're so embarrassed is because you think this lady thinks its ridiculous. i promise you, she doesnt. she wouldnt have offered you a ride home if she didn't want you to feel any better. do what i said and just try to see the hilarity in it. i'm not saying its funny, because its not, but its the only way you'll be able to move on. poking fun at yourself helps other people know that you won't be kept down and you don't care what they think about you. its something that most of us wish we had, and we all could have it, but we're too busy worrying about the judgment of others.
just focus on whatever you're doing in school, and try to laugh it off. i did something like this yesterday and while my mom was yelling at me for being stupid, i was cracking up. :) you'll feel so much better, trust me.
take care.
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