I think you just have to laugh it off. It will go away.
Other people don't pay as much attention to your embarrassments as you think (they're too concerned with their own). In college I tripped over a chair leg in a room full of classmates. I fell flat on my face, but got up as quickly as possible and laughed it off.
When you think of your own embarrassments, think of people on television whose embarrassments have been seen by millions all over the world. Just be glad you're not them!
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.