“Imagine you are walking along the road. Suddenly you fall over and all the passers-by burst into laughter. You feel very  1 and think the world is laughing at you. But in fact, five minutes later, they have  2 it ever happened.” The other day when I came across these words in an article, I didn’t agree with the _ 3   . He thinks the best thing to do in this kind of situation is to pretend nothing has happened, and so avoid   4   trouble.