You can imagine my embarrassment when I killed the wrong guy.

In the circle in which I travel, a dumb man is more dangerous than a hundred rats.

You live by the gun and knife, and die by the gun and knife.

My feelings went from concern to grief to anger, and then to embarrassment.

There must be no more sticking heads in the sand. No more embarrassment and no more hiding behind a veil of apathy,

What is embarrassment? In general, embarrassment is an emotional response to an innocent mistake. The major reason that some of us are embarrassment-prone is that we’ve been conditioned to set unrealistically high expectations for ourselves and to judge ourselves negatively when we can’t possibly meet those standards. A second reason that makes us susceptible to embarrassment is that we’ve been taught to take our cue in evaluating ourselves from what we assume (often erroneously) to be others’ opinions of us.