Personal Narrative: The Grain Of Expectations

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When in the period of my existence, I am being crucified with the expectations others burden me with. Day in and day out more and more people continue to fail at obtaining certain unrealistic expectations leading to a disappointment in any relationship. I have decided to declare my independence because I am sick, sick I say! Sick of the strain upon my back that I can not carry out through the rest of my life: the strain of expectations. I am wishing to gain independence for the sake of my sanity, for I will go mad. I must be free for once and for all. Now is the time to step away from said expectations and finally receive freedom from these predetermined assumptions. Today is the day I take this monumental stand against expectations, not only for my own freedom but for all those who are …show more content…
Do you want to make your child believe that they have no choice in life about the things they do or don’t do? Do you want to make your children think that if they don’t make it to a certain point they are failures? Take a stand with me? I am not going to be expected to be a 4.00 student and never have a social life. I am not going to be expected to graduate with 4 majors and 2 minors from a college I don’t even want to go to. I am not going to be expected to be fluent in French or Italian by the time I am 20. I am not going to have my brainpower be nailed down and stripped of the ability to chose what I want to do on my own. I am not going to have to ignore my heart and what it wishes any longer. I am done with being expected to be the perfect little girl who never does wrong. This here Declaration has allowed me to take such foreign actions to me. I ask all those in history who may ponder my needs throughout this document, to analyze what life you are going through and if you are under the same demise I once was. Do not live in fear of the expectations others put on you. Do what you want, be whom you please. Here is where I declare my

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