Is your life the way you expected it to be?

No, not really. It's more difficult and unpleasant than I thought it would be, but more deeply satisfying.

I never expected anything.

Yes, and no.

Yes my life is the way it should be

Not even a little bit. Then again, when I was younger, I thought all teenagers were the same, and they always had boyfriends and did cool things.

I don't think I have a lot of expectations.

hell no, i always wish i could die. but i don't have the guts to do it.

Not really. But in a good way.

Some aspects.

It would be foolish to expect everything to go the way you've expected it to. (I know, I shouldn't've used expect twice).

Right this moment? No, not in the slightest. This was not in the plan.

I didn't expect much for my life (if ANYTHING), so--all problems considered--it's better! (Even though it sux...for now....) Well, it could be a lot worse.

No. As a young girl/teen, I would never have envisaged I would be single, unattached and a lesbian at age 27
But who's complaining??

Yes, except for all of the crazy people.

yes and no...... not all of it i guess but then i never "expected" anything specific!

No, but all my life I could never visualize beyond 3-5 years into the future or if I'd even be alive.

Not really

Nope.

Broadly speaking, yes. My chosen career is very different from anything I had mapped out for myself as a teen, but if I went back in time and told my 14 year old self what I'm doing now, I don't think that she would be shocked. She might wonder why I didn't turn out to be a human rights lawyer though.

I had no expectations. It is what it is. I would hve been surprised if I was married to a guy, had a stable realtionship, children and a white picket fence.
Really, I had no plan but to go go go where ever, what ever.

Strange but nice

Meh.

Pretty much.

Not really. I expected to be a bigger success by this point I suppose. I don't know why, since I'm not particularly career orientated.

Not hardly! I find it more interesting and surprising than I thought is would be. Thank goodness. That which does not kill me only makes me stronger. There have been times I thought it couldn't get any worse but it did. Times I thought I would be miserable for the rest of my life. Melodramatic you think but those are places I have been and gotten through. I have been happy, felt a failure & accomplished, experienced loss, been sick enough to wish I weren't conscience or dead, laughed, cried, blah, blah, blah. I had a wonderful childhood, emotional teen but a great time, a too young bride (19). I have made many mistakes but I have had more good times than bad and thank god for it all.

Noper

No, but's it's how I could have expected it to be if I'd given it much thought.

I had many dreams when younger, and in unexpected ways have lived to fullfill those dreams (..some highly improbable ones even). Hopefully that will keep going on, because I still have a few thousand more unfulfilled dreams yet.

It's actually amazing how well I knew by the age of seven that I'd be spending the millenium in Alaska of all places, that I would eventually settle down to working in brass mechanisms after pioneering in computers and media, that I would work on steam vehicles and flying machines, that I would become a mystic.

As much of a rennaissance person as I am, the seeds of most of what I was to become were already evident to me by age seven. I thought I would live in something closer to a palace than a studio apartment though.

Generally though I expected from age five to age 30 to be the next Disney or Gates. That never happened.
What did happen though was counselling/mentoring played a large role in my life. I don't know why that didn't occur to me, because it's something I had been doing all along since young without giving much thought to.

NO

Already no.

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