Expectations are good.
Until they're not. Expectations help us define who we want to be and where we want to go. They declare this is important enough to me that I'm going to expect it to be. Expectations are great drivers in that sense, but they can turn on us and derail us. We can't meet all expectations we put on ourselves. Life can't meet all of them either. The key is to know when unmet expectations are just that - a part of life - and not a grenade tossed on the momentum of life. Expectations can be fuel, but the moment unmet expectations become a drain on your life and not the fire in your life, it's time to reassess. Maybe your expectations weren't worthy of expecting. Maybe they were unrealistic. Maybe you were going about being or achieving the expected in an ineffective manner. I don't know. But I know when life isn't measuring up to your expectations and you start interpreting that as YOU don't measure up to life, it's time to take an honest look at those expectations. Failing to meet expectations does not mean you are a failure. It means some step in the pursuit of meeting the expectation hasn't worked out and it's time to figure out which step. That step CAN NOT be deciding you aren't worth the things you expect in life. You are. Expectations sometimes aren't met. That's a life thing, not a worth thing.
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Robert "Keith" CartwrightI am a friend of God, a dad, a runner who never wins, but is always searching for beauty in the race. Archives
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