Never Expectations

Never Again. Never again will I let someone else define who I am. For the first 19 years of my life, I lived off of the expectations and approval of those who are the most important in my life, thinking that that was how you earn their love. I was wrong. I quickly lost myself to the expectations, confused as to who I even was. Me, the one person that should know me the best, hardly knew any truth of myself at all. My joy and happiness in life started to dissipate.

So I reversed my life, slowly started to take things away, wanting to start over with a clean slate, or as much as a start over as you can get when you're 19. I filled my life with my interests and things that made me happy. I started to live my life based on my goals and my expectations, and I was succeeding and was beginning to love life again. And the amazing part is that the people who had had those original expectations for me, while it took some time for them to accept my changes, they still loved me and they were just as proud of me.

So never again will I allow my life to be run by others.