It is so hard to live up to someone else’s expectations.
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It is so hard to live up to someone else’s expectations.
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It depends on the personalities of each person, don’t you think? I’m quite tolerant and easy going, while fairly perceptive, so don’t like overtly pompous/sarcastic ‘know-it-alls’, while I take to friendly/humorous types, accepting that some folk are shy. xx
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I do agree. Although I find it hard sometimes when people expect me to always be upbeat and happy. I’m not always. Some people find that difficult. I know I do.
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It’s hard living up to our own expectations sometimes! 🤗 With the expectations of others, I think we’re afraid of disappointing them. I know I am.
Ginger
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I think that is it exactly.
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And we shouldn’t even try. Expectations equal disappointment.
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Well said.
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Thank you, kind lady!
Happy Friday!
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I like the way you think Dale!
Ginger
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Just so happens, I like the way you think too, Ginger!
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When you see and understand your fears…all expectations go out the door…you see that those expectations are actually built by those fears. Our fears are built on those doubts of ourselves, and is the way we look at us and others…and the builders of those expectations because of it. Understand them and they lose their power over us, and we will let them go. Understand anything, and it will no longer worry us…and let them go 😀❤️🙏🏽
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Very well said!
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Agreed. It’s tough enough to meet my own.
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But you do it so well.
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Impossible at times.
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Yes it is.
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When will we accept that it is futile to even entertain such an idea?
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Sigh. So true.
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In fact the more one tries, the more expectations rise.
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Very true.
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At some point I stopped doing this-
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Smart
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Yes, It is also hard to live up to one’s own expectations. I rather not have expectations. This way, no one gets disappointed.
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True…
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Quite unattainable.
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I think so.
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Indeed. And a waste of effort.
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Yet so many people go to such trouble to do just that.
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