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.
Managing higher expectations from people around us need careful intellectual principles on how to deal with them.
Sometime we don't always get what we planned to get or reach where we planned to reach but all, it depends on our focus because of we don't get it now, that would not make us feel depressed and try too hard to satisfy their curiosity. Since we don't determine the outcome of tomorrow we should always adhere to the current status we are now without faking it to please people and make them compare us to others. Very wrong!