“I was devastated,” recalls Bellino, a 28-year-old education coordinator who normally checks off a handwritten list of each game after completing it to avoid accidentally skipping any. She had been playing the games for nearly a year, marking wins on her list with a smiley face and losses with a sad face. Her travel buddy, also an avid player, suffered the same fate and was just as heartbroken. “We stared at each other in disbelief,” Bellino says… More here (you will need a paid sub or Apple News+ to read).
You may scoff at the notion of a streak being so important, and we all know it isn’t really, but it does become a ‘thing’. I have a streak of +360 currently and all I want to do is get past 366 so I know I have done a full year (leap years considered). Sad isn’t it…
Obsessions are strange things.