Why awkwardness is important?
You want to wear fashionable revealing cloth. But you are visiting a temple. You don’t want to draw the sexual attention of people towards you when they have come to the temple for spiritual purposes. You just can not say “It is my way or high way,” in which case you will be completely rejected by the social structure. Awkwardness helps you from not doing things that you may end up doing had there been no awkwardness.
If there was no awkwardness, one would roam around naked at home in front of the parents and say “They must keep their eyes closed.” If one did not feel awkward, one would be desiring children and may want to touch children sexually. Without awkwardness, you may copy someone else’s intellectual property and publish it with your name. Without awkwardness, you may drive from the wrong side. Without awkwardness, you may end up playing loud music at midnight when all your neighbors are sleeping.
Lack of care for the social norms, lack of sense of awkwardness is a hallmark of anti-social personality disorder(ASPD) and sociopathy
Don’t feel awkward if you feel awkward, as this proves that you do not have sociopathy and this proves that you care for others, and this eliminates your risk and threat to life by social rejection and eliminates any possibility of subjugation to legal and social punishments.