@JakeemB
Jakeem B
@JakeemB · 5:00

Expectations Can Destroy You

article image placeholderUploaded by @JakeemB
Hi, my name is Jacquem, and this is my first time doing something like this, but I think it's something important, you know, today I want to talk about expectations and having so much pressure on you, feeling like you have to be something and having to be what everybody else wants you to be, or living up to these unrealistic expectations people have put on you. And you can't keep doing that. You got to love yourself

#mentalhealth #yolo #rookie #venting

1
@ZLisbon
Zara Lisbon
@ZLisbon · 2:53
And that's hard to do, because as it is now, our wants are largely related to how we want to be perceived. I want to own a house. I want to be rich. I want to be prettier. I want to be in better shape. Are those things I really want, or are those things driven by the way I want people to see me? The answer is the latter. Obviously, I want to meet my unrealistic expectations so that people perceive me a certain way
1
@MarleyMusarra
Marley Musarra
@MarleyMusarra · 2:50
Wow. Thank you for this. I think this is a just really, really honest and beautiful swell and yeah, I'm grateful for the honesty and the vulnerability and I think more people need to hear it and to realize that that they're not alone in so many of the things that you're talking about. I think what comes up for me is this concept and idea of enoughness. And that enoughness shouldn't be conditional confidence, shouldn't be conditional
Swell user mugshot
0:000:00