Often we find unhappiness lurking in the gap
The gap between how we expected things to be
and how they actually are.
The gap between what the world believes to be true of us
and what we know to be true of ourselves.
The gap between who we feel we should be
and who we actually want to be.
So we’re faced with a choice:
Suffer being stuck.
Reduce the gap.
Suffering is simple but not sustainable.
Reducing requires resilience.
But there is a third option:
Change our expectations.
Not expecting things to be different
but making them so.
Not allowing the world to misunderstand us
but showing it who we are.
Not subscribing to inherited ideas of well-trodden paths
but authoring our own.
So that we can spend less time unhappily striving in the narrowness of gaps
and more time feeling empowered in the broadness of possibility.
Not lowering our expectations.
But rewriting them altogether.
