Expectations Unmet

Dear Friends,

As some of you know, I’m moving out of my house this summer.  There’s this rental place I wanted to move into when we first moved to this area 13 years ago…but at the time I was overruled by the majority, so we moved elsewhere.  Then 7 years ago, when we moved back into an apartment prior to purchasing our house in DC, I again wanted to move into this place…but was, yet again, overruled by the majority.

So, as you might imagine, I was pretty excited about the prospect of finally being able to live in the place I had wanted to live in the past, as I am now the majority of any of my life decisions.  And, as you might also imagine, I was pretty sad when I found out earlier this week that I will not, in fact, be able to move into this particular place.

There is temptation, at least for me, to dismiss those emotions, those unmet expectations as ridiculous, as petty, as unimportant.  We do, at times, build expectations in life that are inevitably unmet...and, it’s true, we do need to see those unmet expectations and move past them, we do need to recognize their smallness in the greater picture.  And also, I think simultaneously stopping, noticing and processing our emotions surrounding those expectations, even if seemingly unimportant in the grand scheme of things, instead of simply dismissing them as invalid, is a worthwhile practice.

I hope you have an amazing week, my friends.

Love
Krista