Expectation is a funny old thing. Inwardly, we all desire great things to be expected of us, to be a part of high expectations of people. What we fail to realize is that expectation is a coin with two sides. When tossed up too high, it flips to its ugly side, and showing its two-faced nature, transitions from motivation to burden...
Its the one factor which has the capacity to push you on to greater things, yet also bring you crashing down, because horrifyingly (or not) it manages to make you your own competitor. Invariably, expectation originates from one's own work in the past, thereby setting a bar which he/she is expected to reach everytime.
And this is the cue for negativity to start creeping in. The fear of failure, people's unfulfilled hopes, the reactions of people; such thoughts clutter the mind. Its much easier to create an (positive) expectation than to maintain it over a period of time.
Think about it, there must be something that even you are expected to do almost always. How would it feel when this burden is relieved? When no one reminds you that this is the end result expected? When you are assured no one would resent you being unable to live up to the expected lines? Think about it...
"Expectation should occur with your own belief in yourself, rather than that of others"
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