The Pressure Within Expectations

"But these are the moments I’m gonna remember most so..."

- Miley Cyrus, The Climb

NO MILEY!

Why do I need to add so much meaning to a concept that should be so empty!? When I first listened to this song I loved this aspect of it, the idea that I am living in these intense, noteworthy, and life changing moments. But with that I also felt a constant pressure to live up to this expectation that they were suppose to be the most quintessential moments of my life.

A moment is a moment.

It is a snapshot in time.

And time is JUST time!

It should be lived out and not wasted, but in the most original way.

If I formulate my life, and each moment of it, around a pre constructed idea of perfection, encompassing this idea that these moment MUST be lived like they are the best ones of my life, then I become so preoccupied with striving to this unattainable perfection that I forget to LIVE.

Go into every experience, every situation, every emotional state with an empty and open mind. Accept the reality of the circumstances around you and don't feel shameful for behaving, thinking, or feeling a certain way.

If I live authentically, and I align who I am with what I aspire to be through my values and morals, then I am truly living for me - not for anyone else, and most definitely not for "the moment" - this manipulated idea that carries so much weight in every single persons' mind, including my own, that it doesn't allow us to see beyond the narrow expectations of the world around us, or accept that complex and organic processes of our mind.