> In normal times, the person saying things like this would have been chided by a few of their friends. The first 50+ comments on the blog are supportive, as t

> In normal times, the person saying things like this would have been chided by a few of their friends. The first 50+ comments on the blog are supportive, as they would be "in normal times" as well. https://fringeassociation.com/2019/01/07/2019-my-year-of-color/ https://fringeassociation.com/2019/01/07/2019-my-year-of-col... In case anyone is curious, here is the paragraph including the "pretty stupid" comparison: > I’ve wanted to go to India for as long as I can remember. I’ve a lifelong obsession with the literature and history of the continent. Photos of India fill me with longing like no other place. One of my closest friends from that pink-striped tube skirt era (we originally met at JC Penney) is Indian, and her family had offered back then that if I ever wanted to go with them on one of their trips, I could. To a suburban midwestern teenager with a severe anxiety disorder, that was like being offered a seat on a flight to Mars. It was fun to think about, but are you kidding me? I was so young and dumb then that I didn’t even partake of her mother’s Indian cooking. (Talk about regrets!)