Expectation from people could be the driving force that keeps us going or the reason why some of us gets depressed because of our inability to meeting those expectations.
Because some children did well while growing up in there preliminary classes, people always expect you to come out of the university with destinction and when you're unable to do so, it could get you depressed because it appears most time as though you've failed big time in life and that no one will even understand you at all. I'm at a cross road where my parent and siblings believe so much in me, academically, because I did well in high school but the reality is that I wasn't my best in the university and no one wants to imagine that its a possibility.
How then do I mange the expectation of people on me such that i don't get into depression when I'm unable to meet up with it.?
It's almost like everyone knows you're going to succeed but don't even care about what you're passing through while you're striving to make them proud.
Just because you believe something is going to happen is not guarantee that it must, even life is not a guarantee, you can be alive today and the next day you gone, that's the sad reality of life. Nothing in life is guaranteed and should never lead you to depression, some people can't just make it in life no matter what.
My life has been parallel in movements with other people and I have accepted that in this life, we can deam but not all or if not all will come to true if you are not born with a silver spoon. People who has there dream comes true are people that has generational wealth, people that their grandparents and parents has done all the struggles of life and has money somewhere for them, these are the people that always has high expectations and do work in their favour.
Average and poor people are just strugglers that fight every day about life, the ones you see succeeded are either lucky with grace but checked them, many of them don't make it through the educational sector, they made it either entertainment, politics and business. Life after university is always tough for many people.