Leaps and bounds or a snail’s pace? We’ve each got a style for getting there.
Where’s there? It’s probably everywhere.
Individual goals are set daily, weekly, annually. Maybe you have or had a five-year plan. At any rate, you’re getting there.
A bunny or a turtle, different styles but sometimes the same peril, crossing the road. Because someone is in a hurry to get there.
Creeping or crawling; running or jogging; different ways but getting there.
Some people are there already. Others will always be getting there.
Up and at em or lallygagging, both are strategies of getting there.
Wide awake or half asleep, sooner or later we’ll get there.
The sun rises and the sun sets, reassurance that we’ll get there.
With a little help, a lot of help, invisible help, or no help at all, we get there.
Is there, here, or is it out there? Is it over there or nowhere? Nevertheless, we live and strive to get there. And we’re always, almost getting there.
The question is, what kind of expectations do we have for getting there? Realistic expectations are based on experience, logic and reality. So, I guess unrealistic ones are based on hope, fantasy, and idealism.
You’re not foolish nor wrong if you’ve been duped by your own unrealistic expectations. You’re a genuine, optimistic, and real human person.
If you’ve beaten yourself up because of some of your unrealistic expectations, just stop it right now and join the club. Even if you’re usually logical, super realistic and wise with age, you’ve surely been disappointed sometime because you expected one thing and got another.
Most of us have excitedly bought something from a catalog or on the internet, and when we received it, looked at it in utter disbelief. It was in reality nothing like it looked in the picture.
Don’t even get me started on home repairs or remodeling projects. Oh, dear Lord, I must be the queen of disappointed expectations of home repairs.
I think I can truly advise you not to expect any repair to cost what you had hoped. It will cost more. Also, don’t expect it to be quick, because it will seem like it’s taken forever.
Now, I’m not a pessimistic person. In fact, I’m quite optimistic, but this is my problem. I expect things to go okay most of the time.
Experience has, however, told me many times over that this situation or that one is likely to go badly. Hope takes a hold of me and sucks me right into expecting it to be different this time.
I mean, something that seems like all it will take is just a tweak or two, in reality takes massive reconstruction of all the plumbing in your ancient house. This is crushing to your optimism.
After all, you thought your house was quaintly vintage. In reality and sadly, your cute little abode is deemed by the plumber to be, just plain old.
In the end, whether we have realistic or unrealistic expectations about anything, we’ll get there. Maybe we should rely more on our knowledge and experience with the journey. Since we’ve been on many a trip in our lifetime, I solidly recommend that we keep the faith that we’ll get there.