Social #7 - Awkwardness

Entry 10

What does it take to be considered awkward?

Awkward
-causing or feeling uneasy embarrassment or inconvenience.
-causing difficulty; hard to do or deal with.

To be awkward, is to have issues in judgement and decision if it determines your social status. For example, a statement is made and its intended reaction was to affect your social standpoint, and you want to react in a way that proves pleasing to the audience as well as to the statement maker. Now, being awkward can sometimes be mistaken for being embarrassed. Don't mix the two up.

Now, awkwardness usually instills a hidden fear within one's self, a fear that the reaction and outcome will not suit everyone's expectations. The key to ending awkwardness, would simply be to not overthink it. Do what is right, and all the negative reactions received will soon realise the judgement in decision you made was not wrong but the right thing to do. Awkward issues should be addressed as soon as possible and are more important than regular issues. Since all awkward issues target your social status and standpoint, they tend to cloud your mind with questions like "How should I react?" or "What should I do about her/him?" and rob you of your ability to think critically. This causes something similar to emotional stress. You spend time thinking about these issues and they tend to hurt your 'heart', if you will. (This may be the most juicy thing I've blogged in ages). These issues cloud your mind, which rid you of the opportunity and time to address the regular issues in life, which are usually less thought about and easily solvable. These statements may not apply to everyone, but they definitely apply to the modern socially average person. If you work under pressure unlike me well, then you can handle awkward situations very well.

I know the modern instinct would be to avoid awkward issues and let it be. But awkward issues that involve people close to you may never cease, unless addressed. Awkward issues such as these do not follow the phrase, "Time heals all wounds". Awkward issues that involve people close to you are like wounds, and if not treated properly, will always leave a scar, a permanent mark. These issues require closure, a resolve that proves ideal to those involved and once that is established, proper healing can begin. 

There is no socially approving way to prevent awkward things from ever happening, but what people can control is what happens after. I loosely quote words I heard from Ben 10 Alien Force, "It's not about what you did, but about what you're going to do." As much as everyone hates awkward things, it is inevitable. Just handle it right before it gets out of hand. If it gets out of hand, do everything in your power to stop it, once and for all and things may turn out pleasing.

Awkward situations, if handled well and properly, can boost the affection levels of the audience if you take the right route through the maze of booby traps that may affect your public figure. The length of the maze and amount of booby traps that you could potentially set off depends on the seriousness of the situation. Thanks for reading.