draliman on life

Daily Prompt: Cringe-Worthy – Do you feel uncomfortable when you see someone else being embarrassed? What’s most likely to make you squirm?

First of all – three posts in one day from me? Blimey. A one-off I feel. This topic speaks to me however. So, on with the prompt.

I’m not sure which I’m more scared of – embarrassing myself or seeing others embarrassed or humiliated. I guess the majority of people are fairly averse to being embarrassed, but I’m sure there are people around who like to see others embarrassed. I can’t handle it at all. I actually feel really bad inside even when I don’t know them. Here’s a list of some programmes I refuse to watch:

• Dancing on Ice – I’m scared someone will fall over after all their hard work
• Strictly Come Dancing – as above
• X-Factor – I don’t want to see someone forget their words in front of everybody
• Masterchef – I’m worried someone will get their cooking so wrong they’ll get yelled at even after they tried so hard
• Big Brother – nothing to do with seeing people embarrassed, I just threw it in the list because it’s crap

I can’t help thinking this is taking things too far, but that’s just the way I feel. I suppose I could see a therapist about it but I don’t think telling them “because I want to be able to watch people being humiliated and enjoy it” would go down too well.

So I’ll just continue the way I am. Not wanting so see people embarrassed isn’t such a bad thing, is it?