Shame (Pain and Suffering for Lent)

One moment you thought everything was fine, you were among friends, then something happens and your face burns and they are all laughing at you.  It feels awful.

Even years later, you can feel your gut clench when you think of it.

If it happens enough, or you worry about it enough, it becomes a permanent injury.  You are always about to cringe.  You have a permanent psychic injury.

Perhaps, eventually, it will lead you to either Pride or  the peace of Humility.  But either way, it hurts.

He was despised and rejected of men.