Shall we all take a step back and realize that we are not what everyone expects us to be?

Oh I know I'm not.. I am me and that is all I will ever be.. Take it or leave it...

hahaha I've grown up never being what people expected of me

joke em if they can't take a...

nevermind

Frogs are my favorite vegetable.

I realize I may not be what others want me to be, or be how they would like me to be... but it sounds like a personal problem and not mine

Dang Dude....can I have some of what you're smokin'?

It ain't easy being green.

It aint eazay bein greazay!

I don't think it is a bad thing to try to live up to positive expectations. Sometimes it is the streach we need to do to be our best self. I do think if someone is chronically dogging you for not making their expectations you have to assess if it is reasonable and let it go. Not make their problem your problem. We all have that choice. Just like we have the choice to always buck the system. Thing is you have to be willing to take the lumps that go with it. The older I get the more the lumps seem to hurt so I think I have to see a reason to rebel more now days.

i yam what i yam
and that's all that i yam

Yes it is all true that we all try to be individuals, but when it comes down the the fact that we actually have to be one on one with an individual....are you REALLY prepared to be what you are and the rest will accept you as you are?
Think about it...none of us are prepared to strike out on our own and be us as we are us because we have conformed to family contributions and trials and tribulations that we have survived. None of us can say that we are totally on our own as we have previously been totally on our own throughout life. We have endured influences and incumbrances from previous family experiences.

Are you totally comfortable in saying that "I am what I am...take me or leave me" any more? I used to think that, but I have been educated recently through experience that I may need to rethink all of this otherwise...

Well, on weekends, I do drag.......drag racing....yeah!...that's it.

flatulence is the emergency vehicle that pick's you up after you are ran over by a streamroller !

Ok then, play it up as a joke...but there will be some time in your life that you will have to face the harsh reality of losing a parent, losing child and God forbid that you lose the both in one year.
My point is, you can not take all at face value and I am asking if we are willing to do that without having things in place?
Sounds as though people are feeling invincible and not planning for the inevitable...our lives are disposable I guess...too each his own. Wasted breath.

loss of a loved one is a very strong emotional hurt, grief is how to get through it, takes time, energy but it does not mean anyone feels invincible nor disposable.

yes, to each their own

I would have to let you get close enough to me first before I care about your expectations of me.

Yes, and by all means do we play it off to "each their own" and forget about the comfort of others and compassion.
Watching "Patch Adams" today reminded me that we all need to be "human", but it also reminded me that the majority of us are so self-absorbed that we no longer have feelings for our neighbors and freinds.

no one is denying nor forgoing empathy nor sympathy - good luck, think there is more than your saying but it's your right.

Oh, sometimes its fun to play around with others expectations of me.

I have obligations/expectations that MUST be met.
I have children to raise, support. A job that has high expectations of my performance on a consistant basis.

I have assumed responsibilities with the expectations that they will be met.

I often portray myself here in a manner that IS inconsistant with my true self. Sometimes for laughs, other times to intice others
to reveal more of themselves.
Other times the absolute truth is in front of us, if we know where and where not to look.

I lost both parents in 7 months time we're a strong family....we blamed it on my brother....

We're Irish if we didn't joke about it, we'd drink about it...which is worse???

Should I sit around and cry about it, would that make me more human? To be upset about things I have no control over, or should I infact use my own coping mechinisms to deal with it?

When sh*t hits the fan do you watch it hit you, or do you duck and laugh at the person it hit?

Personally I laugh.....




and laugh....



and laugh....

and oh you get the point by now.