You’re the main character in your story and a background extra in most other people’s. Both are fine.

Your life is the only one you experience from the inside, so of course it feels central, and everyone else is running the same arrangement with themselves in the middle. That means most people are not thinking about you much, which stings for a second and then turns into a kind of freedom. The embarrassing thing you did was a minor detail in their week.

Use that next time you are dreading how you came across. Use it the other way too, by being the person who occasionally notices an extra and gives them a line.