The fact you’re worrying at all, as I’ve said before on these pages, suggests to me that you probably have little to be concerned about. The most insufferable people – those deserving of being complained about – are the ones who can’t even comprehend that their behaviour would be considered insufferable.

So, my advice would be to persist.

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Persist with your tradition. If it’s something you look forward to, helps get you through the daily grind and doesn’t hurt anyone else (unreconstructed wowsers aside), it’s probably worth persisting with.

Persist with the self-examination. It’s healthy to ask yourself, from time to time, “have I done that to death?“, “could this be misconstrued?“, “am I only having fun here at the expense of someone else?”, “are we the baddies?”

And also persist with a bit of interior griping every now and then. A private whinge can have a purgative effect. And without that bile building up inside you, you’re far less likely to end up being the person airing frivolous grievances via official channels.

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