Well this is awkward...

You may think you're a pretty cool person.  You may not be able to remember a time when people didn't think you were cool.  Cool may even be your middle name.  Get over it.

At least once in every mortal's lifetime, an awkward moment happens.  How many of us have had the unfortunate trilemma of deciding to high-five, shake hands, or bear hug a friend?  When this occurs, there is usually a brief, but ever awkward, period of time where both of you are flailing your arms up, down, out, then up again, all the while keeping a jolly smile on your face.  Admit it. You've done this.

Have you ever had a perfectly good and intelligent conversation just up and die?  Doesn't that long, and certainly awkward, pause of silence where the conversants just say "Yup" or "Uh huh" or "Good stuff" just make you want to crawl in a hole under a rock in the barren wastelands of Arizona and not come out until you turn 172 years old? (Well maybe not; that would just be awkward)  Then somebody, usually you, has to mention the awkward silence to break the ice again. To which everybody says: "Yeah, lol." Way to be sociable, Doctor Awkward!

When you were a child, did you ever hold somebody's hand thinking it was one of your parents and it turns out to be a total rank stranger?  Yeah, aaawkwarrrrrd!

How about calling someone by the wrong name, to their face, more than once in a sitting?  This is one that not all are guilty of, but once it happens nobody forgets.  And why should they? It was awkward.  In an awkward kind of way.

I won't even mention the "Reply All" vs. "Reply" button on your email.  Let's not bring up THAT painful little incident.

But awkward is funny!  This is why we laugh at awkwardness (once we recover from it).  This is why you probably cringed reading some--if not all--of these scenarios.  Whole TV shows are centered around awkward people doing awkward things in an awkward way.  Books are written yearly to instruct awkward people how to not be like themselves by "being themselves" (figure that one out).  You can find awkwardness all around if you look for it! For example, if I were to end this blog post suddenly.