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EXPECTATIONS (Freedom Vs Fear…)

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  EXPECTATIONS (Freedom Vs Fear…) Have you ever considered what kind of freedom we crave for? We believe we’re free.. yet hand on heart, we always knew the truth that lies inside us. The truth which is stopping us from experiencing the best because we have the tendency to live in the fear. Are we really free from our thoughts, from the expectations of others? or rather pretend to be free. A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. — Seneca Just be yourself they say, but which part?? The patterns that have come to define me? the well-versed society version? or the larger part that’s neither here, not there, but everywhere? What’s holding us is the expectations of others. It’s obvious to expect things from someone but at what extent those expectations start to hurt? — Either too much of it or not expecting anything at all. Latter one wins, I guess. Usually, these expectations causes two kinds of burden: Firstly, when we’re expecting someone else to fulf...

It’s all in your head..

Start Acting like a 1480. There’s a story that stays still with me: There was a guy who was failing out of high school but he promised his mother he would take a test called "The SAT".  Well this guy takes it, he’s bombing, he’s failing out of school, he doesn’t expect anything. Well he gets a 1480 out of 1600.  He gets the score, and his mother says: "Did you cheat?"  And he said: " I swear to god I tried to cheat but the way the numbers were and the scantrons and the bubble you couldn’t cheat.  Because he realizes he’s smart and he’s going into his senior year he says: "I’m gonna go to class"  Now he starts to go to class, he doesn’t hang out with who he did when he didn’t go to class.  He graduates, goes to a community college and becomes this massively successful magazine entrepreneur.  Well the guy was always smart, he just needed a standardized test to unlock it?  My dad said : "No.. That’s not the story. This is what I want you to understa...