Entries RSSApparently by age twenty-five most women should be married, own a house with a white-picket fence, be well on their way to the pursuit a perfect career, and in general, have life well understood. In truth those are quite high if not impossible expectations to hold above any single person. Did you know that the human brain is not fully developed until age 25? If we assume this theory to be correct, then somehow society is expecting people to make all encompassing and committing life decisions by an age that God or evolution never intended. Interesting…
On a personal note, I find that the best way to combat this pressure is through expecations or by redefining the role expectations can play in our lives. It has been my experience that the best moments are those same moments associated with zero expecations. The job you never thought you would be offered, but because you knew the right person or walked in at the right time were offered. The cute guy you never thought would ask you out until that one day you ran into him at a coffee shop because you simply needed your skinny chai and the moment was right. Or how about finding yourself more motivated and more alive then you ever thought possible simply because you pushed your body to the physical limits and finished that marathon? Funny the role expecations play. And how in reverse, when we enter a situation with loads of expecations, the only truth we walk away with is disappointment.
Life works this same way. While society may have expecations for us, especially women of this independent, empowering generation, we are under no obligation to fulfill those expecations. Live life to its fullest. Adventursize. Smell the roses. Fall in love. Cry when your heart is broken, and live with no expectations.
