How Feeling Ashamed Can Turn You in a Better You
Here’s a short story of one of the times of my life during which I felt the most shameful, how it turned me into a better version of myself and how you can too.
Back in the first year of University, there was a girl I was interested in. We became great friends but that ended up putting me deep into the “friend zone”.
Luckily, in the second year, we got closer and closer and started seeing each other alone, spending more quality time. A deeper connection was created and one night we finally hooked up.
“I did it!” was my thought back then.
But she had just come out of a long relationship and didn’t want anything serious. She wanted us to remain friends and have fun around with other people.
I was so deep into her that I accepted despite being well aware that was going to be difficult for me. I was wrong. It was actually impossible.
A few weeks later, at a friend’s party, she started getting closer to the neighbor who was also at the party. At one point they went to his flat to start hooking up but I went with them and they, later on, started kissing on his couch.
I should have left, but I didn’t.
I stayed there, doing pretty much nothing, while they gave me clear signals I should get…
