Great Expectations or None at All

I feel, expectations come from love and care. Only when we love someone we expect from them. So, I try to deliver my best. But any times my friends expect so much more and I cannot keep up with them. For I have some other priorities then. They grudge and complain but at the end of the day they understand. I would rather want my loved ones to expect from me. That means so much to me! That would make me happy.

If someone is expecting something from me and then is disappointed that is their problem not mine. I am not interested in other people's expectations of me, nor do I waste my time conjuring up expectations for them. People are free to be and do and have whatever they want and it is none of my business to decide what they should be being or doing or having. I do hate to let people down though so I am glad nobody is betting on me to win any races or bring home the bacon, hehehe.

Firstly i would say it depends on who that someone is and in what way i relate to that person. Secondly i would be ok with some amount of expectations, but not to the extent of greatness wherein it may seem impossible or difficult for me to satisfy them. But again i would say it would depend on the person and my relationship with them as they would then themselves limit the expectations knowing me.

I have absolutely no interest in what other people think of me because I know that I do what is right and the best that I can. My expectations are what counts, not the expectations of others. Of course, everyone has a slightly different impression of what constitutes goodness. Some people think making like a door mat is good.

hi there... i used to be having such great expectations.. i have encountered alot of it this year... sigh.. it's hard but i can't help not to hope and dream. i usually try to better each year... how about you?

I guess it depends on the person. I would hope that my family would expect greatness, and I hope they would see it too. Strangers on the other hand, I'd prefer if they just expect meritocracy, because that's about all they are going to get from me.

i do not like to see any body dissappointed particularly the ones i love,so i tend to project a negative image of myself ,so that others expectations from me are not so high.

I think what I would ultimately prefer to have is someone with realistic expectations of me that I once in a while exceeded! It all comes down to their expectation level really, as there is nothing worse than spending your life trying to be something that will never be good enough! To have someone that has little or no expectations of you is arguably indifference and that would not be a nice feeling at all. As long as the expectations put upon me were realistic then I would definitely prefer to have them placed on me even if I didn't manage to achieve them all the time. Sure there will be disapppointment in us from time to time because of this, but at least it would mean that the person was actively involved in our lives.

To be honest, I've never taken both quite seriously. I mean I have gone through phases in which I get scared that I might disappoint someone (it's actually more of my paranoia acting up), but it's gone after like 2 minutes. I also don't have problem with people not expecting anything from me at all--with what I do or with my future. I remember though when I was a kid, I almost failed one of my subjects (it was Filipino, and I'm not sure if you had the same teacher since we went to the same high school, but I would think you now what I mean.) I was so scared that my mom would get mad, but she didn't. All she asked me was if I did my best, and if I had, then that was good enough for her. I guess it's because my parents don't put that sort of pressure on us and they are happy to support our dreams (or sometimes even my lack thereof). If I do get motivated to do something and to do it well, the pressure would be from nobody but myself. So, I guess I can say that I am more concerned about disappointing myself than other people, and I am more bothered by whether I am expecting too much or too little of myself.

I could relate with both situations. My mother was really hoping for me to be a nurse. She practically planned my whole future before i could catch up with her. none of her choices gave me much despair cuz i was stuck in a world i didnt want to be in...i had a choice to be in or out but quitting was out of the question...my family expected me to be a bigshot nurse...but i have my own dreams...so i quit...they were all heaviy disappointed with me but i never regrette quitting. Now,my dream is to become a disney animator and make animated movies. i have a passion for it. and i feel like that is what i was born to do. but they are "practical" people. "there is no money in cartoons", they dont beieve i can do it...i believe with more training i cn make it! im quite good as it is now but i would really want them to believe in me. They support my nieces...they singand dance...poorly i might add...they're only 4 nd 5years old but the attentionand suport is there. but here i am trying my best to show them what i can do but they just dont care..........