Chapter Twenty-two. Don’t expand your comfort zone

Who are these strange people who actively seek out public humiliation and embarrassment? They are happy, and I do mean happy, to indulge in wanton experimentation and attempt new things in front of total strangers, or worse still, in front of family and friends. Amazingly, even when they know in advance that nine times out of ten they are going to fall flat on their stupid grinning faces, they still go ahead and do it. (Smiling, even though everything is going wrong, is a particularly annoying trait they all seem to share.)

And that’s after we, as someone who cares for them, have given them the benefit of our vast ...

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