Don't Let Me Down

Oh I hate this words. This sentence might come if someone is expecting something. Like if you don't, they won't be disappointed. But if you do, they'll be sad. Simple.

In my eyes, expectation is closely related to hope. But hope is just like a two sides of coin, it can be good, when hope gives you motivation to reach your goal, but in the other side, hope a.k.a expectation might kill you when you get disappointed as your hope is not fulfilled.

I want to talk a little about mental health. Since the main cause of mental health problem is still unknown, but we all know that a combination of factors such as heredity, biology, psychological trauma, and environmental stress, might be involved. I think, in some cases of environmental stress was happen due to expectation is not meeting the reality.

Many thing that could disappoint us, people, situation, weather, animal, technology, trend, coffee, anything. That's why I hate when I learn that someone is putting their expectation to me. Sometime, I just think that it will be easier if we expect nothing so we won't get disappointed. Well, expect nothing might be easy. But the harder one is, letting other people down when they are "generously" asking you not to.

So when other people said, "Don't let me down." In a very slight moment I might be thinking, "Do I responsible to your satisfaction or happiness?" It is a burden to know that other people is putting their expectation to you, and it is even harder to think that we might be failed and let them down. And as you can tell, I will say yes and try to do my best, and when we already tried our best, the other person who was asking you is not impressed, and bam! there....you will be the one who get disappointed. Complicated isn't it?

And in the end, I will be thinking again, I shouldn't have to try at all. Try not to let other people down, because most of people are hard to be pleased. You know, actually, I know how to say no, I just need more practice.