There is both. When people are more afraid of embarrassment, they’ll ‘waste’ their lives, never doing what they really want to do.
When people are more afraid of wasting their lives [than of being embarrassed], they’ll actually live them, even though they may still feel embarrassment for being socially awkward, saying the ‘wrong’ thing, or whatever else their fears of embarrassment stem from.
Why not both?
Yeah. The binary is needlessly limiting.
There is both. When people are more afraid of embarrassment, they’ll ‘waste’ their lives, never doing what they really want to do.
When people are more afraid of wasting their lives [than of being embarrassed], they’ll actually live them, even though they may still feel embarrassment for being socially awkward, saying the ‘wrong’ thing, or whatever else their fears of embarrassment stem from.