Because You Know You Want To Write A Book

The road to failure is rocky. Expectations can smooth it right out. Expectations can, in fact, transcend time and space and get you to failure at the speed of thought.

Unlike time and most spatial movements, expectations are bi-directional. They can help you fail, coming and going.

First, let’s follow the arrows out; from your head to the world around you.

Does anyone, or anything, live up to the dreams you’ve built in your head?

Of course not. Fail. Big hard fail, instantly. (Doesn’t that feel great?)

All righty then; let’s conquer the incoming arrows: the expectations others have for you.

Despite being entirely unreasonable and completely out of tune with the true you, they have the ability to possess your reason and turn you into a marionette, dancing to whatever tune the world plays (or, making you look and feel even more foolish, no tune at all.)

Be what the world expects instead of what you really are.

Big fail. This fails so big and fast that it’s happened before the world even knows it has expectations.

Of course, they don’t; not really. It’s just you.

Looking for an excuse to fail.

Say it out loud: “I will be what I am, instead of what the world expects.”

Win.