Are you the person you expected to be?

[Keesha]

What expectations did you have if yourself?

Why were these important to you and did you achieve them?

 

[hollydolly]

I had no expectations , except to survive when I was young. I've achieved that despite the obstacles, and although I wish I'd had the opportunity for a better education , I'm very glad I achieved the former,,

 

[drifter]

I am he. I had no expectations. The only thing important growing up in my family seem to be that you have a job.
Any expectations others had of me were surely, sorely disappointed. Perhaps I should be known, not as a drifter
but as a Disappointment and that's the way I would sign on. My forebears, those gone on, would know that I
finally realized my true worth, and acknowledged the problem I had been and the disappointment I caused others.

 

[bingo]

for quite sometime I had realized that I needed to adapt to the person that my life had brought me to..accept that i am not the same as before...life changes some people

 

[C'est Moi]

I don't believe I had any particular expectations; I just wanted to be a good mother and I still worry about that.

 

[jujube]

I "expected" to be dead by now. Compared to that, I'm doing pretty well.....

 

[Gary O']

I expect to make the day enjoyable

so far, so good

 

[Capt Lightning]

He who expects nothing is seldom disappointed.

 

[mike4lorie]

I think I am approving to be a better person each and every day... Besides, I didn't think I'd still be alive... They always say up there they are not ready for me, and down below, they don't want me, cuz I try to unionize it...

 

[Ronni]

Interesting question.

Save for the fact of having children, my life now bears absolutely no resemblance to the life I had envisioned for myself, when I was young and looking into the future. I had expectations of being the quintessential cookie baking, apron wearing, white picket fence type grandma doddering around my cute little house that I'd lived in my whole married life, grandpa and I welcoming the grands and great grands for visits and sleepovers in our doily covered home.

Riiiight.

The reality is far different, but not disappointing in the slightest. I still have all those grands for sleepovers, but we are more likely to be turning each others hair pink or going rock climbing than we are baking cookies lol!

 

[Liberty]

One of hub's fav sayings is "aim low, avoid disappointment!"

 

[Lakeland living]

By the time I was 16 I knew my life would be different from what I was seeing all around me.
I was not going to lock myself in and looking back I did just that.
No regrets here, I chose most of it.
I have to say that yes, I did.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I expected that I would be a 'good person". I don't know if it was genetics, my upbringing or fate, but I think I'm a "good person."

 

[Keesha]

I don't believe I had any particular expectations; I just wanted to be a good mother and I still worry about that.

Oh I LOVE this. Be the person your dog thinks you are. They are so darn easy to please aren’t they?
Bless their precious hearts.

There’s nothing the makes me feel more valued than coming in and getting greeting by my dogs.
Even if I’ve only walked down the driveway to get the mail, they treat me like I’m their biggest hero.

Dogs are awesome.

 

[DaveA]

I met and married my wife at an early age, before I gave any thought to expectations. We were married exactly one year and I had been discharged from the military on Feb 1st. On the 4th, our first child was born and there we were, neither of us with jobs and no expectations except survival. From that time on, through the next 3 kids, etc., life would be a series of reactions rather than fulfilling any expectations.

Turns out, I had married a sweetheart so life worked out OK but our planning could have been a little better.

 

[fmdog44]

Twice as good as I hoped to be and half as good as I wanted to be.