Awkwardness: An Essay

It’s as though the awkwardness is continually on the move, ever present yet impossible to nail down.

The concept of awkwardness
A pub that I frequent has a “live Irish session” on Sunday afternoons, where instrumentalists from the music school next door play various Irish tunes.

One day, however, the instruments fell silent and a woman began singing a capella in a very dramatic, drawn-out, vibrato-laden style.

Wherein lies the awkwardness of this situation?

what awkwardness is, what it means, what it’s telling us about our age and about ourselves.

German philosopher Martin Heidegger,

In America, apparently everyone loves seeing people cringing on The Office, itself based on an even more painful British original starring Ricky Gervais.