xkcd #3076: The Roads Both Taken

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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/

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Is that not missing an 'I'? As in

I travelled both though I be one traveller...

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;

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.