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Climate anxiety was consuming me. Then I learned to laugh about it

Climate anxiety was consuming me. Then I learned to laugh about it

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The daily dread pushed me to enroll in a standup class. Could I channel my despair into something lighter? If you had told me six months ago that I would soon be performing standup comedy to dozens of strangers, I would have assumed it was a bad dream. Public speaking ranks about as high as driving in rush hour traffic

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The daily dread pushed me to enroll in a standup class. Could I channel my despair into something lighter?

If you had told me six months ago that I would soon be performing standup comedy to dozens of strangers, I would have assumed it was a bad dream.

Public speaking ranks about as high as driving in rush hour traffic through downtown Boston on my list of favorite activities. That I would choose to do standup, with its potential for public humiliation, is basically unimaginable.

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