[ **up: [[Emotions]]** ] --- # Embarrassment > True embarrassment requires sincerity, vulnerability. True embarrassment keeps you up at night. Unfortunately, in a ridiculously human dichotomy, the risk of embarrassment goes hand in hand with just about anything that makes life worth living.[^1] > All of the best things in life require a degree of embarrassment, or at least the possibility of it. Dancing, singing, sharing art, cooking food, having sex, holding hands; there is risk in it all. You could burn dinner or sing off key; no act of self expression or love is exempt from this danger.[^2] [^1]: Katie Bird, ‘Embarrassment Has Good Bones: A Comprehensive Venn Diagram of Things That are Terribly Embarrassing and Things That Make Life Worth Living’, *Marrow* (Blog), 3 January 2023, https://katielotz.substack.com/p/embarrassment-has-good-bones. [^2]: Katie Bird, ‘Embarrassment Has Good Bones: A Comprehensive Venn Diagram of Things That are Terribly Embarrassing and Things That Make Life Worth Living’, *Marrow* (Blog), 3 January 2023, https://katielotz.substack.com/p/embarrassment-has-good-bones.