Give it time. Cringe has a way of turning into comedy after a couple of birthdays.

Embarrassment is intense at close range and almost never survives distance. You remember it from the inside, while everyone else, if they remember at all, has it filed as a minor moment in a busy week. Time does not erase the memory, it just removes the stakes attached to it.

Take whatever you are mortified about and imagine telling it at a table in three years. If it is funny then, it is roughly that size now. Meanwhile, be as forgiving of tonight’s version of you as you are certain to be later.