Expectations can ruin lives. The heavy burden of what another human wants you to be, to do, to lie... These burdens shape your life until suddenly your life becomes someone elses. You try to live someone else's idea of perfect. Until suddenly, one day you wake up and you realize that your life was a lie. You have no thoughts or dreams. You may think you do, but you don't. They were someone else's.

Expectations set you up for disappointment. You build up your hopes and daydream your way into a perfect ideas of what something or someone will be like.

Very rarely are our expectations fulfilled. So why do we continue to have them? Because it's human nature. We're impatient for perfection. But perfection is in the eye of the beholder. Expectations allow us to hope. They allow us to manifest our dreams. Expectations give us drive. If Socrates didn't have any expectations for his students, would Plato or Aristotle have continued on their path of geniusness?

Necessity may be the mother of all inventions, but expectation is the nourishment. Expectations allow us to keep marching on.