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** Disclaimer: Far from poetry... just today's ramblings, inspired by a shitty night at the bar **
Like all things in life that one has expectations of,
I've fallen short again.
I'm sickened at the thought of these drooling guys at the bar,
Who, for the price of a few drinks, expect you to drop your panties on a whim
And be the cheapest thrill of their middle-aged life
Or these egotistical jocks who expect that picking you up in their $40,000 shiny red Beemers with the cool leather seats will have you begging for their attention.
Expectations fall short again.
Will my daughter expect me to teach her about makeup and boys and shoe shopping?
Will i expect her not to fall in love and get her heart stepped on, and expect her to be brilliant in math and physics?
Who has the right to expect such things, anyway?
But then there's me, who expects that the guy in the suit with the laptop and cellphone sitting at table 32 eating a caesar salad and drinking unsweetened tea *BETTER* drop me at least $5 out of that Persian leather wallet that he's been flaunting ever since he walked in to the restaurant.
There's me, who expects to have her heart broken as soon as its been captured...
And do i want that? no, i just expect it.
I hate that my mother expects me to get a $100,000/yr job and buy her a house or a Benz, and that my father expects me to have gone my whole life without ever driving out of state.
I hate that my cats expect a treat at 5:45 a.m. or else they will make my morning miserable and sleepless.
And him... he always expects so much of me.
He expects that i will return his calls, and kiss his ass, and always be there waiting, as his backup plan in a scheme of a wonderful life with a girl i think is trash.
I hate that he always expected me to cook him dinner and cater to his every need,
And that he expects me to forward him mail to him because he's too lazy to get a change-of-address form.
If i could take all these expectations and crush them, i would. I dont want to expect a certain thing out of life, and i dont want life to expect certain things out of me. It would be nice, for once, to just go through life, expecting nothing; no pats on the back, no raises, no birthday cards, no audits. Freedom from expectation. What a notion.
 
Expectation and disappointment are very closely related; you don't experience the second unless you've developed the first. Expectations are limitations on the possible set of acceptable outcomes.
What other people expect of you is not what you are, and sooner or later they all need to come to terms with the fact that you do not (and cannot) fit into the little box they have prepared for you. No one else's definition of you is as important as yours. However, you must also remember that the impact of those expectations upon you is something that you are allowing--just because those opinions of you and your behavior exist doesn't imply their importance. You can choose not to let them affect you. It's hard to do, but it is possible...
...and, by the way--trust me here--this is poetry. Poetry is whatever the poet says it is. :)
 
darls lock yourself away for 6 months or so,dont take any calls from anyone,still go to work but come home afterwards and read a book or something instead of going out,just become a recluse,and while youre doing it focus on removing peoples expectations. I know this sounds rediculous but youll be surprised by the results,your body can pull off miraculous things without you reason even understanding how.just get back to being you and doing the things you enjoy and stop thinking about the expectations of people who have no right to have them.good luck and as always very nice work.
 
wow. i was actually going to go back and delete this entire thing today, because i didn't like it after i had written it. but i guess now i'll let it live. :)
thanks guys, as always.
 
*nods*
Freedom from expectation would be nice...
'cept, if you don't expect anything, how can you be pleasantly surprised when you get more than you expected?
...that's what happened when I click on the link to this thread, and I wouldn't have it any other way...
 
Will my daughter expect me to teach her about makeup and boys and shoe shopping?
Will i expect her not to fall in love and get her heart stepped on, and expect her to be brilliant in math and physics?
You have now put one of my biggest fears down on the screen. I'm just gonna agree with what Sprinkle said. Expectations are some of the most evil things can imagine. But the anger you feel from being faced with them... that is poetry darling. Fabulous, I'm glad you didn't get to delete this. :)
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hun i'm very glad you didn't delete this before i read it.
the whole thing is so true. i don't even know how to comment on this. all i can say is that the whole time i was nodding at every line being like 'yeah' 'mmhmmm' 'very true'
as always, great work.
Mella
 
wow, while this throws rather dark colors on my own life right now (with many expectations that won't be met), it also seems highly inspiring to me, for some reason. To expect or to live-up means having some sort of a preconceived notion of where one must go, or how one must be. Abandoning these opens up possibilities and makes one enjoy life, not milestones. It also allows one to try things that were originally out of question. I didn't even ever want to post in Words forum here for example, as I thought the scrutiny to each word would be too much to bear, but that's not the case at all, it was just an expectation that was hindering something potentially wonderful (in this case commenting on your writings). Numerous examples of this can be found in our everyday lives. Thanks for pointing the way.
 
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