Sharp Expectations

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Expectations are necessary wants and needs to thrive in life. However, they are like a double-edged sword which can be extremely empowering and equally unsafe. The main thing with expectations is that they have to be our own, similar to latching to the round, sometimes pink, and dahlia shaped source of life. As we grow the need for nutrition doesn’t go away, but the sources and tools do change. I don’t like cooking but I like to eat healthy, so cooking is irremediable. My cooking is rather simple it requires little tools, two of them being a sharp knife and salt. A sharp knife and too much salt can be as perilous as an edentate infant learning to latch.  

On the other hand, dull knives can be equally dangerous as sharp ones when they require us to use extra force. Same goes for edentate infants as they learn to breastfeed, until they have the right technique to absorb the nutrition their small, and fragile bodies need. Just like knives get dull and need sharpening so do our expectations, and just like an infant that learns to extract their source of life, we need to learn how to sharpen our own outlook, so we can extract the best of life, instead of letting it passed us by. Our expectations need to be regulated like our salt, they are necessary but allowing them to dictate our lives will give us high blood pressure, and will prohibit us from metabolizing life.

Consequently, we don’t simply want salt, our bodies need it, it’s how much we use that can be harming. Salt is essential for muscle and nerve functions, it regulates fluids in our bodies, and controls our blood pressure, it also contains iodine which is essential for a healthy thyroid, responsible for regulating our metabolism. My point being that expectations are about accountability and a must. We need them for functioning in life, as a tool to guide us, hopes and probabilities, but ultimately, we must sharpen them, in order to extract the best out of life, an optimal amount is essential, but don’t let them become the source of life. They are like wanting a home cook meal, just remember it takes time, from Prime to Patience.