Embarrassing situation in my life

      We, people, live, breathe, eat, communicate and interact with each other and, interacting with each other, we get into a wide variety of situations that, of course, give us a lesson, especially those situations that make us feel embarrassed.

In my story that I’d like to tell you is about the situation at my tennis practice I used to get into very often and that made me feel very uneasy and embarrassed.

      Well, that’s what used to happen to me: drilling and practicing some skills in sets with my coach at the tennis court the balls from him always beat my head. That constantly made the viewers present laugh at me and it, of course, was a natural reaction, I mean their laughing at me, or the situation, to be exact.

If you had been in my place, what would you have done? Did it make you feel angry or offended? As to me, I felt completely embarrassed and insulted.

      Do agree with me that it’s embarrassing and even offensive when you are unrewardingly being laughed at!

Since it happened to me very often, I kept thinking of that painful situation many times. I used to fail my sleep at night, keeping thinking of it. I couldn’t bare the sufferings and sorrows like these and I had been having kittens. I used to go in for the tennis practice with my hard thoughts that I couldn’t get rid of until, one day, my coach, being aware of my state, told me one of Aesop’s fable about a bald knight.

      So, that bald knight kept a secret of his being as bald as an egg, and he wore false hare instead. But as they say all mysterious things become revealed one day. The knight was once invited to hunting. He and his company were galloping around the forest where they were hunting when suddenly the knight’s wig was caught with a bough of a tree. It happened at the view of his friends who didn’t know that he was bald. That situation made them burst into laughing. They went on and on laughing. At the beginning the knight was embarrassed and a bit angry but he took control over himself and began laughing at himself with the rest.

      The moral of the fable is: If you are laughed at, do the same thing with the rest and you don’t feel embarrassed.

      After listening to my coach, I realized that it’s unreasonable to turn a fly into an elephant, there’s no need to dramatize an ordinary situation even if it makes you feel embarrassing or angry. And more than that, one should give a birth to a clown in oneself so that it can defend you psychologically.

Well, my friends, when you get into an embarrassing situation, you should get a lesson of it.