To Be A Product Of Expectations
Why is it so difficult to get yourself rid of expectations? Why does it always have to be the next thing? Why does happiness have to belong in some imaginary land?
Imagine being a perfectly healthy and well individual with good self-esteem, friends, and family, but being unhappy. And what for? because even though you have this, your competitor just got promoted and now you are sad, someone went for a vacation and now you are sad… why does your happiness need to lie somewhere else? Why do you see happiness in pictures and videos of other people’s Instagram and Snapchat stories, what is wrong with your life? Why is happiness not in a mirror?
We as a society, due to the presence and knowledge of basically everything from around the world have become so superficial and so discontent with comparing lives, livelihoods, bodies, and even happiness. We burden our perfectly fine existence with so much expectation, that we forget to pay gratitude and celebrate our own success, however grand or minuscule it may be. Why do we not feel a sense of achievement or exhilaration when we have achieved something, why in today’s time where everything is being time logged, have we forgotten to cherish these milestones. Instead, they just seem to pass away as distant faded memories, leaving a weird hollow sense of unfulfillment.
Why do we maintain that facade that everything is fine, even if it is not? What has happened to integrity, comfort, empathy, touch?
Why are we so wound up in our heads, that we are not what we are expected to be?
Probably because we never will be.
We need to understand that this very second, this very moment everything that makes you YOU, every breath, every struggle, every tear, every smile, every fear that you have lived on makes you.
You are complete, you are whole and just as imperfect as you are not expected to be. And trust me, darling, it’s fine.
