Expect Nothing and Just Live

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I have been thinking a lot about expectations lately. I have been trying to make sense of why we have them and I keep falling short.


Expectations come with every situation. We expected something from everything that we do, whether it be eating an apple and expecting it to taste good, to dating someone and expecting them to be "the one." It is actually ridiculous how often we place expectations on situations, people and things, because almost all the time we are let down by the reality. 


In 500 Days of Summer there is a scene where Tom goes to a dinner party with Summer and a side by side view of his expectations and reality is shown. Of course, in Tom's expectations everything was perfect, Summer and him were the only two talking and spending tons of time together, but in reality that is not what happened. 




It is sad that we do these things to ourselves. It is upsetting that we would even want to be let down by expectations, but more than anything it is completely stupid to form expectations. Obviously I am being a little extreme because we are humans and it is human nature to expect. I just think we need to learn to expect a little less because then when better things happen it is thousands of times better than what we had somewhat expected or imagined.


This has become a recent mission of mine since I have been thinking about expectations so much. I am awful about forming expectations and nine times out of ten I am completely let down by the reality and the reality that lives in my head. So, it has become my mission for the next month to let go of all expectations and just live! This may sound completely insane but I am a different person than I was just two months ago and I no longer have a need for expectations. I no longer have a need to worry about what is going to happen tomorrow and I no longer have a need to expect certain things to happen tomorrow.


So, this is my pledge that I will try my best to expect nothing. I will wake up each morning and just live instead of expecting.


Just remember, expectations ALWAYS get you in trouble.

Life is so constructed that an event does not, 

cannot, will not, match the expectation.

- Charlotte Bronte