Expectations Vs Reality Quotes Novels & Stories

He probed. She took a sip of her drink. “you know, sometimes I get tired of our life,” she shrugged, gazing into his eyes. “I mean this life of privilege of ours, which is embroidered with constant expectations.” She set her almost empty glass on the table. “You have to live up to certain expectations.” “I know,” he consented. “Are you telling me that? It can be exhausting at times, trying to meet up and to surpass the legacy before you.” “People don't know that these legacies of ours comes a lot of weight”

They’ve seen ambiguity stretch too long. They fear waste. But we are not waste. We are work. And work doesn’t rush itself. Still, expectation doesn’t disappear just because it’s understood. It shows up in moments of choice. When we decline invitations that assume permanence. When we avoid language that commits us to futures not yet lived. When we choose clarity over reassurance. Someone jokes, “So when’s the big announcement?” I smile politely. “There isn’t one,” I say. “We’re just living.”

I asked. “What did you expect?” His eyes were filled with disgust and hate as he looked me up and down. “You won’t make it to that dream of yours, and I needed someone who can match my class. Someone who does not only share my dreams but who is able to achieve her dreams alongside me. Unfortunately, you are not that person. Your dream is so unrealistic, and you have decided to make a mockery of yourself by turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to the reality.” The reality? The reality was that I would become a surgeon. I had come too far to drop that dream and that passion.

Jake turned to me. “You know that, sometimes we are the ones who complicate things.” “How?” “Like now, we’re together, everything is not going very well but what could be worse? We are alive and for a moment the universe gave us this moment. To breathe, chitchat and just forget about whatever that worries us but that’s all you are dragging.” “Because that’s my reality.” “We don’t have to be realistic in every aspect Chloe. That’s why people dream, expect and believe that something good is coming their way.”

I say and she looks at me unconvinced. “That sounds to me like a marketing strategy to get people to come and spend their money.” She says looking at me sideways. “That may be true but we will never know until we get on it and see for ourselves.” I say and she shrugs. “You’re a true optimist.” She says and I nod smiling. “I just want us to manage our expectations, so that we don’t end up disappointed.” She says forever the realist. “No high expectations. Got it.” I say and she frowns at me unimpressed yet again.

(Favourite KAJ quotes) Always expect nothing or the worst from people so you wouldn't be in a shocked state when you get disappointed at anytime. The few people I've let this known to pointed out that it seems way too harsh, mostly Veronica and Mageret. And ever since, I stopped telling people but remind myself all the time because to me it's not harsh cause it's the hard damned truth. The truth is that, people fail to handle the truth all the time. That's why there are lots of heartbreaks here and there, broken/failed marriages coupled along with homicide and suicide. P.S: My friends never quit reminding me how much of a weirdo I and my thoughts are.

"Mind your business. I said it was out of kindness. I'm not in any kind of relationship with him." "I'll pretend that I believe you." "Just think whatever you desire. What concerns me now is the worst-case scenario. Did I lose my womb? Is my spine broken and I can't walk anymore? Just tell me the fuck wrong with me." "God! What a pessimist you are." "Good things hardly happen in real life so I don't expect it. Whatever life throws at me, I take it. No surprises and no hard feelings." She stared at her thoughtfully " l get what you mean. Expecting too much will only break you."

But then, he remembered the light at the end of the dark tunnel. He was finally going to meet his son. The son he thought has died until two days ago. The thought filled his chest with a type of expectation that Cillian has never experienced. He wasn't one to leave himself open to expectations in the first place because with expectations came disappointment. Expect nothing and get no disappointment. That was yet another one of the mottos he'd raised himself with. But today, he found himself having great expectations for the day that would follow. Tucking his phone into his pocket, he turned to face the sea of shareholders who were watching him like he was some circus animal, but averted thei

In fact, all talk ceased, period. You know how sometimes you’ve wanted something so badly for so long, and you’ve built it up in your mind, you’ve hyped it to the point where it’s just unbelievably, incredibly wonderful in your fantasies – and then you actually get it, and the situation falls flat? There was no way it could have ever lived up to your expectations, because your expectations were sky-high, and instead it’s just a gigantic disappointment? Yeah. This wasn’t like that AT ALL. This was one of those occasions where no matter how good you hoped it might be…

“It’s not meant to, the weight is too much for you princess.” I exhaled slowly, leaning back against the chair. “Honesty is starting to feel like a luxury I didn’t ask for.” “It keeps you grounded,” he replied. “I feel anything but grounded.” “That’s because you’re adjusting.” “To what?” “To reality.” I turned my head slightly toward him. “That word keeps showing up too often lately.” “Because you’re finally seeing things clearly, being in the action.” “Or I’m just being pulled into things I didn’t choose.”