No Expectations, No Disappointments
This phrase is definitely one of my favourites, one I hold dear, the one that is always a self reminder. I know, realistically both expectations and disappointments are inevitable but I like to think that it is our decision when it comes how we choose to handle it. For most of my life, I’ve always been living up to other peoples’ expectations - how to be a better student, a better child, a better sibling even a better lover - a constant battle of who and who is always better than me. I guess you don’t realize such things when you’re too busy striving and working hard to please everyone around you. Maybe your thoughts are like mine - if they are happy, then I am too. Funny how I never once ask myself - why don’t you do things for yourself? To be a better version of yourself, for your own sake? (Oh well, we were all foolish once.) With time, it was too late to realize how deep of a grave I had dug for myself and that how little sunshine left that I could see. I thought someone w...