Resolved: to stop even being tempted to make important decisions for negative reasons. I do not need to be driven by fear and in fact I don't even want fears to always be the first thing to reflexively come to mind, however intracellular that has seemed to be for me since attaining sentience ("I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DANCE!!!"). Uncertainty is uncertainty, not certain doom. AND! should a (sensible/educated) risk taken turn out a way that I don't like, it doesn't change the 'rightness' of having taken it. A smart but foiled basestealing attempt does not become unsmart simply for having been foiled, the effusions of everyone who has ever sat near me at a game on such an occasion notwithstanding.

Nice prompt to remember & record D's unforgettable, thrilling, character- and personality-altering response to my complaint about a Swisher bunt (and indeed all bunts): "i know, i'm talking specifics and you're talking generalities; but you assumed the loss of the precious out... it should be used sparingly and smartly, but it is, partly, the surprise that is so beautiful..... and whether it be baseball or comedy, surprise is what we all are after." (If that were in a movie, it'd be both (a) the climactic romantic moment at which everyone in the audience sighed besottedly and (b) on every t-shirt on every hipster in the world. Somebody should get on that)