Have You Ever Felt pressured To Live Up To Other Peoples Expectations?

Answer 1

sometimes but you have learn to be a shepard instead of a sheep.

Answer 2

Absolutely! sometimes it is a good way to motivate a person to try harder. Sometimes it can be destructive. The thing that I would recomend would be to get the learning out of it either way. If you can try harder and do better to achieve that expectation, great. If you still fall short of their expectations and they are not willing to help you along, then that person just likes to see people fail, but do not let it overly discourage you. Those people are everywhere and cannot usually help themselves. You can choose to rise above though.

Answer 3

yes i was ailways pressured to live up to other peoples expectations because in the close knit society u have to respect the other peoples sentiments and their culture and their valuable experiences to have a good relationships and prospect of having a name in the previliged society and to make the assesment of what is good and what is bad.

Answer 4

As a kid thru my college days i lived my life trying to please my mom. I actually grew up not knowing how to do anything but preach the bible. I actually went to college to be a preacher because that is what my moms dream for me was. One day i just woke up and asked myself what do i want to do with my life? I did not have an answer but i did not have it in me to face my mom either so i went somewhere where my mom could not stop me. I joined the army. While i was in there i learned so much about my self and i learned i could do anything i want if i just tried. Now i have a wonderful wife and a one year old and a new one coming in about 3 more months. I am happy and yes i did face my mom and found out she actually didn't care what i was in life just as long as i was happy. So my advice is for you to ask yourself what do you want in life and then educate yourself in how to accomplish your goal and then put your best effort forward to reach that goal. As for living up to someone else's expectations just go tell them what you want to do with your life and then just go do it. If they love you they will understand someday. Maybe not right away but thier love for you will prevail once they see your happy.

Answer 5

Definately when I was younger, but now I just feel pressured to live up to my own, which are much harder to live up to than the other people's.

Answer 6

Growing up, my cousins were over achievers. Who's Who in American colleges etc. Here is the best part, I am the most successful now in everything, career, marriage, life in general.
The lessened learned. Who cares what people expect from you. Care what you expect from yourself.

Answer 7

Yes definitely when I was younger and in school. But now as an adult I set my own goals and expectations for myself.

Answer 8

Yes, my sister got 13 A* and one A for her GCSEs and I am in no way going to get anything like that. Everytime I try and tell my parents that they just say, "we know you can do it, we will get you some tutors" I really anoys me, I wont be like her so dont try and push me to be.

Answer 9

The one biggest advantage of growing older is that this completely disappears. Very liberating, and worth a wrinkle or two in my estimation.

Answer 10

Not anymore. I'm too busy living up to my own expectations.

Answer 11

do no longer all of us? We spend years attempting to stay as much as our mum and dad expectancies, then get a job/ pass in to greater practise /get a profession and so forth. all of us stay as much as expectancies with the help of conforming to society. i'm no longer asserting it is all a sturdy undertaking, this is only unlucky reality!