Expecting the Unexpected Was What You Were Expecting

Expectation, it's a good thing and a bad thing; a wide topic with both good and bad applications that can be applied to various areas of our lives. Clearly it would take me forever and a day to delve into every aspect of expectation as it applies to our lives (which I honestly have no desire to do anyways) so I will focus on one are in particular; which is expectation as it applies to the person that we are or want to be as opposed to the person that people expect us to be. So let's get started. I'm sure most everyone has heard a variation of the statement that is something to the effect of "You move to a new town and get a fresh start. You can be whoever you want to be." It's fairly common thinking but it wasn't until today that I asked myself why. Why do you get a new start? Why can you be whoever you want to be? Why couldn't you be whoever it is you wanted to be before? My answer to these is simply expectation. As people get to know you they expect the traits, charecteristics, habits, presentation, all of the nuances that make you you. However due to a change in maturity or lifestyle, perhaps not having represented yourself accuratley in the first place(which could be due to a variety of reasons), needing a change for something different, or any other number of reasons; that their expectation may no longer fit you. Maybe who you wanted to be before is no longer who you want to be now. The reasons are endless but the point that I'm straining to make is that we are changing, growing older, finding out who we are and we can't be expected to stay the same. Change is as natural as breathing but it's about as awkward as Superman attending a tea party. But don't let that stop you from being who it is that you want to be. Don't let someone's expectaions define who you are; life is too short for that. Besides they'll get over it and make up new expectations soon enough.