Awkward Moments Day

Awkward Moments Day is an annual celebration on March 18 every year. The purpose of this day is to celebrate those awkward and confusing moments that are a part of our lives that still happen from time to time. It is more interesting to see that Awkward Moments Day is the day after Saint Patricks Day (also a day associated with alcohol and parties).

History of Awkward Moments Day

The awkward moments are endless and unpredictable, yet some of humanity's scariest moments have been captured better than others. In case you're working through your own fake social network, check out this history to make yourself think: "hey, at least I didn't do that".

As it turns out, humans have been clumsy since the dawn of time. Some of the earliest awkward moments we can find include Isaac Newton's incorrect apocalypse multiple times, a 1929 Rose Bowl football team almost running one touch on the wrong field, and President Roosevelt accidentally ran into Churchill coming out of the bathtub, naked!

With the advent of radio, TV, movies, and many other technologies that connect us, the number of embarrassing moments that are made public and scandalous grows exponentially. Has you heard of Janet Jackson's famous situation at the Superbowl named "Nipplegate"? Who doesn't remember when Ashlee Simpson was caught lip-syncing during a concert?

Awkward moments in the YouTube age take on a whole new character, as they can be watched over and over again. More famous awkward moments from the 21st century include Mike Tyson falling off a skateboard and when Ariana Grande was caught on camera licking a donut at a bakery before putting it back.

You know what we're talking about. Raise your hand if you've ever accidentally swiped a coworker right and had to avoid their table on your way to the kitchen. Who else has liked a liker's Instagram post from three years ago? We can't be the only ones who have ever sent a screenshot of a message… right back to the person we're messaging.

Our age gives a lot of chances for personal embarrassment, moreover, you can watch awkward moments via internet. Take it easy knowing that awkward moments have existed since the dawn of time, and that sometimes running into a tree stump or putting your foot in your mouth just connects us and makes us human. Plus, they're fun to laugh at!

Why Awkward Moments Day?

I can assure you, there isn't a single person on this planet who hasn't had an awkward moment in life. And if we all have moments like that, then why don't we encourage people to share their stories and their very own versions of those awkward moments.

Think back to a time when you suddenly patted a person in the middle of the market thinking he was your friend, but you realized he wasn't what you thought he was. Or maybe remember that moment when you were attending a conference, and suddenly you realized that you were the only one clapping for a phrase quoted by the speaker. All of these moments are something that you may or may not feel ashamed of at the time, but when you look back on it later, you will laugh about what you did in the past.

In today's life, people are always chasing after one thing or another. Laughter, which was once a normal human emotion, has now been transformed into a form of yoga performed at certain intervals. In such a messy environment, where we forget about basic human emotions, the need for such days emerges, which serves as a relief to bring us back to our true nature by providing us with reasons to laugh by evaluating ourselves.

We encounter various awkward moments in our daily life, which even we ourselves don't notice but make ourselves feel relieved to recall. Awkward Moments Day is a day to celebrate and nurture such wonderful moments by reliving them through a variety of methods.

These moments vary from person to person, depending on one's own definition of awkwardness. For example, some may consider singing with loud volume as an awkward thing, while some may consider it normal behavior. The list of such examples would be long, but the joy of all those moments will always be unbeatable.

How to celebrate Awkward Moments Day

• Record all your awkwardness

You can celebrate it, or even laugh at all your clumsiness, by writing down all the awkward moments of the year that you might not have tolerated in your hectic lifestyle.

• Arrange small gatherings

You can arrange a gathering of family members or maybe friends and encourage them all to share such moments, which can ultimately lead to great social harmony among all participants because everyone can get to know each other in a smiley way.

• Fight your own clumsy version

There may be some awkward memories from the past that make us feel ashamed. On National Embarrassment Day, we can overcome such a moment by laughing at it and sharing it with others; who knows, maybe someone in the audience might have an even worse experience than you, which you never expected would exist.

• Allows socialization of awkward moments globally

You can celebrate that by sharing their moments through various social media platforms using the usual hashtags #AwionaryMomentsDay or #CelebratingAwlusiveness etc.

The way it is celebrated can be different for each individual, but the larger outcome of such a celebration will always be the same, and it's a whole new, more confident and light-hearted version than yourself, who will be prepared to prepare some brand new awkwardness with moments and pride.