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I can second this one.
Literally hundreds of times I have realized that it will soon be time to go to tae kwon do class, and that I was dreading it, even though each time I mentally noted for future reference during class that I was enjoying myself considerably.
I sometimes wonder if a few hundred more repetitions will make the dread go away, but Laplace's rule is not optimistic.