Sweet Caroline
The next day a young man sat on the wall in front of the
dorms. I sat down with my cup of coffee and asked him how he was doing.
He smiled. “Worst case, I’m embarrassed today.”
“Not sure what you mean,” I said.
“I’ve done a lot of things I’m ashamed of, all of them tied
to my addiction.”
“But nothing since you came here and got sober?”
He nodded.
“So what kind of embarrassing thing do you think you’ll do
today?” I asked.
“Look at my feet,” he said. He was wearing shoes from different
pairs. “Got dressed in a hurry.”
“At a training I walked into the men’s room with my mic
still on, humming Sweet Caroline. When I got back to the conference room, the
whole audience started singing it.”
He laughed, “Now that must have been embarrassing.”
“Embarrassment is like a tiny reminder of what shame feels
like, except you can laugh about it. I
try to be grateful for it.”
Today I’ll try to be grateful if I do something embarrassing.
Fawlty Showers 2
is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you
might know is purely coincidental.
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