Sunday, November 23, 2008

Toiling about Expectations...


Living a carefree life, the way I want to, the way i wanna do the stuff, the way I wanna go for my career, the way I wanna treat myself and people around me, the times I wanna smile or cry, the way I wanna crib , or study or play, like a kid...

Am I living the life my way, a carefree life or am I passing it away, just toiling about the expectations around me?

May be the second one is more appropriate in each of our lives. It starts the moment you are born, people want you to smile or laugh or do all that funny stuff, at the very time they want you to. It may insist you to think that I don't even understand the meaning of expectations... but think , isn't it that cagy when you have to stand or sit or sleep the way about.

Lets just take parents, offcourse they have thought the best for you the way they think. But may be that yours and their way of perceiving, thinking or deciding things does not go on the same path. At times you must have found urself on a cross road...when you are to choose the way out of one that goes with your desires ant the other bringing true their dreams. When you go with the thought that its your life, then may be you are being selfish. And when you try to come upto their expectations, may be you are being unfair to urself. And if there is a person like me would go with their dreams, hoping to see the contentment and happiness in their eyes, even if I have to wipe my tears off every other moment.

There are always some special ones in your life, and being special , they are on the side, when they have a right to expect something from you... and when its you who cannot let them down , here comes another burden ( not exactly burden 'coz doing doing something for them is a source of happiness), but at times it can be really difficult, when you have to smile, even if your heart is really tensed and it seems impossible to control your tears, just 'coz they expect you to be smiling and cheerful always.

You are always expected to be good and cooperative to everyone ( even if the other person isn't), to come forward with everyone or not being selfish ( even if those so called all are none but legpullers), to prove urself the best in watever sphere ( even if you have got no interest), to remember everything ( really tough for pathetic memory people :) ), to present yourself really good wherever you go (who the hell is gonna see???), to behave decently and control your emotions in a crowd around ( cannot even be urself when somebody is around ), to be with everyone (even if you feel hell lot detached), to care for everyone around ( is it really that easy as one says..?) and what not????

Doesn't it feel like a machine when you auomatically change into another person depending upon the surroundings and people around, and your behaviour, talks , thoughts, ways I mean everything blah blah blah changes so automatically and perfectly and even comfortably that even you are not able to notice it sometimes???????? no matter watsoever is going on behind...

Its so difficult to keep everyone happy na...... even after you forget urself and just think about the other one, life runs away this way only. You are always busy in coming upto everyone's expectations and forget wat actually you were and wat you desired to do........... But at times its really satisfying also, and most importantly when the other person is one whom you love.

The happiness you see in their eyes is more worthy than all your sacrifices or tears, and for this one happy moment, atleast I can give away whole life, for making the wishes of all my close n special people come true.......... And when you reside in the heart of Gaurangi,,, today or forever you have a right to expect!!!

Cheers!

20 comments:

Tara said...

Whoa Gaurangi! Very true! Yes, matching upto expectations is very tiring, even on the little things like public behaviour! But I believe we can strike a balance. If we listen to our parents, it's not wrong, as you say rightly. We can tell them too, that now that we have listened to them, they should listen to us too! That way both parties will be happy! :)

gaurangi said...

@Tara
:)
let them be happy,n we wud also b happy for them!
cheers

Tara said...

I guess am about 45 minutes early...HAPPY BIRTHDAY GAURANGI!!! May you have a great year ahead and may all your dreams come true dear! Stay healthy, stay happy for the rest of your life and do always keep blogging! Good luck, take care and God bless! HAPPY BIRTHDAY ONCE AGAIN!!! Keep rocking! :D

gaurangi said...

@tara
thank u thank u thank u :)
cheers!

Where thoughts are Word$ said...

Hey belated happy birthday.

Very realistic post.

:)Liked it a lot...

gaurangi said...

@wtaw
Thanks :)

Unknown said...

Thts r8t gauri its really difficult to stand upto the expectations of others in every sphere ,in every aspect of life especially wen we luv them a lot n can't see them disappointed 'coz of us.Even its more difficult wen u alwaz hav to maintain the same smile,voice tone,tolerating power,cheerful nature,helping nature etc etc etc coz others expect the same from u but at the same time u hav a strange fear,lonliness,many questions, a blast inside ur heart n u could not get a single person in the world to share all tht crab.Do try to fulfill the expectations bt tme is limited so nvr try to live lfe of sm1 else.

gaurangi said...

@Garima
yup its so true...
but then again the best thing is to live for all those smiles, coz that fills heart with happiness n satisfaction...

gaurangi said...

@Jimmy
thanks :)

Sakshi Arora said...

:P
its very very very difficult for people who have a bad memory to come upto expectations...thats coz they forget about the expectations.P

Kidding.
On a more serious note, thats life for you. Its all about striking a balance. There will be times when your wishes will coincide with that of your loved ones and its smooth sailing then but when there is a conflict, thats when one faces the real test-of character, morality and understanding.

Life is living for your loved ones but not expecting them to live for you...because hey, you live for them coz it makes YOU happy!

--Credits: Mum.
She said something on these lines just a day before.

love,
S.

And sorry :(

gaurangi said...

@Sakshi
Life is living for your loved ones but not expecting them to live for you...because hey, you live for them coz it makes YOU happy!

luving these lines....
Yes offcourse every1 has got his or her life...their priorities... their way o thinking... so obviously u r at a fault if u expect them to live for you...
All the beautiful n strong relations survive only in the case when u realize what is being expected frm u n almost forget to expect frm the other person... :)
And then life brings u surprises n happiness..that is sakshi for every1 here ! right???????
luv ya

Nikkita mathur said...

ha-ha-ha...
hello...so another post comes up wid the same my dream,their expectations and the crossroads...
EXPECTATIONS HURT they always do, which ever way but they make you stronger each time just like tears do..
i guess u've already read this but just felt like mentioning these few lines here...

“Let dreams be dreams,
Have a B-E-A-utiful dream each night...
And if the dream doesn’t come true, don’t worry,
Have a new dream tonight...

But in all this rush...and pace of life,
Don’t let your dreamz and expectations coincide...
Cuz then is when the going gets tough…
And that is when it HURTS INSIDE..!!..”

i hope this helps u...cheer up..
'u can spread happines only if u have it..' so stay happy..

cheerz!
updated blog!
love:nickku

Nikkita mathur said...

n well....
ur GAURANGI...the one beep talks about,the best friend since ages...
abi pata chala....
kool kool..
um blogrolling u..not cuz ur beep's frnd....
maybe cuz of that only...but we r frnz here rite..we also live in the same place..thats a gud reason n finally cuz i want u to read my posts... :)

Tara said...

Been a long time we heard from you Gaurangi. I hope everything's fine...update soon...missing you! :)

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neeraj_only said...

hey!! why stopped blogging!! ?

hope u will come back to blog world...enjoy bit life.....me will be leaving BIT ...end of bit days soon :(

Shan Consul said...

hey!!! u write amazing.....yup "expectations" is directly proportional to desires....welll keep up the good work and waiting for more posts :)

gaurangi said...

@shan
thanx:)
wud write soon..

Tara said...

Hey Gaurangi! What's up girl? Long time. :)