One of the strangest things about being human is how much of our lives are controlled by people who aren't even thinking about us.
We worry about what strangers think. We worry about what our neighbors think. We worry about what people from ten years ago think.
Meanwhile, most of those people are busy worrying about themselves.
Think about it. Someone sees you doing something embarrassing. They might remember it for five minutes. You remember it for five years. That's a terrible deal.
We construct imaginary audiences and then spend our lives performing for them. We choose careers because they sound respectable. We stay in relationships because leaving would look bad. We buy things we don't need because other people have them. We avoid taking risks because failure might become public.
Eventually you realize something liberating. Most people don't care nearly as much as you think they do. And the few who genuinely care about you probably don't want you to live a fake life anyway.
There is a strange freedom in realizing that embarrassment is temporary but regret can be permanent.
People will judge you. Let them. They were going to judge you anyway.
At least give them something interesting to talk about.