How often do you cringe at past actions?

[lowwintersun]

Just a light hearted musing really. Do you ever randomly cringe at things you've done in the past and how often would you do that? I think either I've done too many cringeworthy things or they pop into my mind too often. 😬.

Usually in the middle of the night

Yep, usually 3am.

Totally!

ALL THE TIME

I've done this a couple of times today. O often do it because I seem to say and do stupid things more often than most! That said, perhaps people who don't have this problem are just a bit less paranoid.

Oh god yes! I'll randomly just remember something and feel really squirmy for ages

Yup, every morning when I read my Facebook memories past statuses...

I torture myself most bedtimes with the stuff I've said or done!

Yes yes and double yes.

Sometimes the cringing wears off after around 24 hours.

Constantly. All day. Every day. I am a twat.

Random things I've done pop into my head and I cringe.

Sorry to say 😂, but this is really excellent for me to read. Sometimes I'll cringe and say "oh no" out loud and my family think something awful has happened. But no, I'm just remembering some fuckwittery or another.

I call them crimson memories.

Frequently- as a teen I decided that singing Meatloaf’s I will do anything for love at the boy I fancied, with soulful eye contact and theatre style arm motions was a valid flirting Technique. It wasn’t in case anyone was in any doubt.
To this day I cannot hear that song or even think about it without doing a full body cringe and cursing 14 year old me for thinking any bright ideas after drinking a litre of white lightning were worth acting on.

Yes! I’m actually relieved it’s not just me.

I was out on my bike at the weekend and I don't know if it was the sudden rush of oxygen to my head but I literally cringed for about 5 miles.

Embarrassing Thing after Thing popped into my head. It's the story of my life being embarrassed and constantly . I comfort myself that at least it makes me human. Who wants to be perfect all the time! I'd be happy being perfect 0.00000001% of the time

Also realised I’m the only one to over share the reason for cringing. I am a twat.

Roughly every ten minutes, I think. Usually freshly generated ones too as my foot lives in my mouth. But I have the enduring classics too.

Not so much cringe but genuinely wonder wtf I was thinking
For example, once I applied for a job, interviewed successfully, had a start date...then just didn't turn up!
I look back now and wonder was I on glue? (I wasn't!)

@Royallyscrewed I cringed for you there.
Mine are largely teenage I know everything moments! How nobody put me in my place I don’t know.
Kissing random people on nights out in younger days is a frequent one, there were some questionable choices made.

@SpeedofaSloth very droll!

I actively try not to. A thought pops in saying "remember that time you :You were SUUUCH a " And I go "LALALALALAAA, I can't heaaaar yoooou!!!" And deliberately think of something I did well or was proud of to counteract it.

If I allowed myself to go ahead and think about them I'd literally turn inside-out with the sheer cringe factor of past shames!

All the time. I need my brain wiping.

Far too regularly. Usually stupid things 12 year old me did.

So glad this isn’t just me I was a horrendously cringe teen! My mum still has a picture of me in tye dye jeans and a velvet roll neck top with like a creased material vest over the top holding a can of Stella I seriously don’t know who I thought I was!