Great Expectations

I get really frustrated when people complain about not meeting their expectations.

So, after you tried for so long, you're just going to give up?

But it's true, you never seem to know what life will throw at you the next street over until you've turned the corner; however, this shouldn't stop us from continuing to reach for our highest goals.

At the moment, I'm working on and dealing with a few things I've never had to deal with before, and they all came at once. The life that I thought I had planned for myself this summer just got thrown out the window. For now, I'm putting off the things I've been meaning to work on, and am just taking life day by day--in times of great change, that's all we can do. But I know that I'm growing, setting myself up for success and much less pain the next time anything like this happens.

Whoever came up with the idea of Summer break for students is a genius--by the time summer is over, I know I will have dealt with everything going on in my life to face the new year with a fresh start.

Sounds corny, right? Yes, but it is as corny as it is true.

Full speed ahead, comrades.