I seem to be a verb

“ One of the failure modes I've come to better understand in myself since observing it in others, is what I call, "living in the should-universe".  The universe where everything works the way it common-sensically ought to, as opposed to the actual is-universe we live in.  There's more than one way to live in the should-universe, and outright delusional optimism is only the least subtle. ”