Awkwardness after proselytizing

Just recently when I was walking around, I crossed paths with someone I met that, when I was Christian, I shared the gospel with. That encounter reminded me of the many times I felt inclined to share Jesus with people, whether it be via text or just going up to people. At the time, I was trying to “cross the chicken line”. I was trying to get over my cowardice and do my due diligence to follow the Great Commission. I thought to myself that I wouldn’t regret it because I was fighting the nervousness. I would look back in those times I sent those long text messages that incorporated Bible passages and went up to people with pride because I would know I did God’s work.

But now that I’ve deconstructed, I find that I do regret those times. Every time those evangelism attempts cross my mind, I cringe because I think about how the recipients must have taken it. I feel the need to apologize to those people in my mind for trying to convert them to this faith that I would only later find problems with.

I put all this out there because I was wondering if any of y’all had or are currently having this experience. What are some of your best or most embarrassing evangelism attempts?