Has reality ever met your expectations?

Not for most of it, but it has for the past 14 1/2 years (which has made the wait and all I went through worth it).

Yes, it has. Each grandchild.

Rarely. Sometimes it has fallen short, and sometimes it has greatly exceeded them. Very rarely have things turned out the way I've expected them to.

What is this strange place you speak of called reality? I've never been there.

Not always, but yes, very much so at times.

No