You know, I'm confident before I go out and play a match that I know, you know, I've put in the work and like I feel confident that I am going to go out there and play well.
I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything.
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.