In today's episode, I'm going to tell two stories that are each about sort of joyful events or celebrations.

But in both cases, they take a horrible turn just because of one small decision.

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Okay, let's get into our first story called Peace and Serenity.

Okay. On the morning of July 23, 2006, a 74-year-old artist named Maurice Agus paced back and forth near an art exhibit in Riverside Park in Chester-Lastreet, England.

And Maurice was frustrated because this was supposed to be one of the biggest days of his

entire 40-year career as an artist.

Right now, his exhibit, his masterpiece, should be full of people,

but it wasn't. So Maurice's exhibit was called Dreamspace. It was this massive structure about half the

size of a soccer field, and inside of it was the sprawling network of small, colorful, interconnected

rooms. Dreamspace was designed so that

visitors could sort of wander from room to room and be affected by the music and soothing lighting

and have kind of an immersive, serene experience. And this was by far the largest physical exhibit

that Maurice had ever done. So it had taken a lot of preparation and naturally

there had been some construction hiccups, but it was all going to be worth it because Maurice knew

it was about to be seen by a lot of people since it was located in a really big public park. However,

before they could actually open, there was still one more hiccup to deal with.

This morning when Maurice had arrived, he'd realized that part of his exhibit had not been set up correctly.

So he and his staff had spent the last few hours rushing around to fix everything and add some finishing touches to the exterior.

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