The Roads Both Taken
xkcd.com

When you worry that you’re missing out on something by not making both choices simultaneously by quantum superposition, that’s called phomo.

https://explainxkcd.com/3076/

    • idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 days ago

      There’s already an “I” earlier in that sentence, so it’s not necessary necessary, especially in poetry, but it would absolutely be clearer with another.

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      11 days ago

      It’s an adaptation from “the road not taken”, by Robert Frost, which does the same

      Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
      And sorry I could not travel both
      And be one traveler, long I stood
      And looked down one as far as I could
      To where it bent in the undergrowth;