M3. Embarrassing Moment

Christian Bale said, “But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.” I will be the first to admit I get embarrassed so easily. It doesn’t take much to make me turn bright red in embarrassment. I can honestly say I can’t put my finger on one individual time that I was most embarrassed during. I get embarrassed when I answer a question wrong in a class. I get embarrassed when I miss a shot in basketball or shoot and air ball.  There is just so much that I get embarrassed over and I don’t really even know why. I say stupid things all the time and embarrass myself. Half of the time when I get embarrassed it isn’t even that big of a deal but I still turn really red. One moment I remember being really embarrassed during was when I got pulled up to the sectionals semi-final basketball game as a freshman. We were playing Roy-Hart I remember sitting on the bench and not expecting or having any desire to go in the game because I was so nervous. Coach Delzer walked over to me and said Snyder you’re going in. I was kneeling waiting to go in and my heart was pounding I have never been so nervous ever. When I got in the game we were breaking Roy-Harts press. We got the ball in and I got the ball passed to me on the left side near half court. It was a perfect 2 on 1 with Lauren Kocher and I. I started to dribble the ball… and before I knew it the referee blew the whistle and called me for traveling. I was so embarrassed and angry at myself. Coach Delzer took me out right after that. . I only played for a few seconds that game, but that’s okay because after my travel all I wanted to do was sit on the bench.