How to score your life

Mari Andrew · 5 Jun 2026

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Disappointment is the gap between expectation and reality.

Their wordsI am fully aware that disappointment is the gap between expectation and reality
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Human beings are inherently "completion freaks," always needing to know whether something is finished or if there is more to do.

Their wordsOne of the many problems with being human is that we're Completion Freaks.

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