I do not see the point in holding oneself back, but I've also a different outlook on things.

[the fact that she can go "all out", so to speak, with different things helps a lot. She's never understood being more reserved, either, but that's again part of how she views things, and her lack of any discipline as she got older]

I suppose you are, ah - screwing yourself over, though it is my understanding that it's normal to do that? I think, at least. Modern humans are strange.