Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.

I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing musical virtue in distress.

You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.

The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a gift for judgment. If you have it, you can say anything you like. If you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it. And everything you say will be held against you.