A great deal of discomfort arises from oversensitiveness to what people may say about your actions. Consider whether anything that you can do will have much connection with what they will say. And besides, it may be doubted whether they will say anything at all about you.
Chess is notoriously difficult to play well.
Chess players often claim that one cannot master the game without a high order of intelligence. More plausible, however, is the suggestion that the difficulty of chess lies in its complexity rather than in its profundity. Lent is a period of fasting observed in many Christian churches. Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and lasts until Easter. The day before Ash Wednesday is Shrove Tuesday, and in some cities a merry and lively festival called the Mardi Gras is held on that day.