Meeting Expectations

As we are growing up, we start to encounter more and more things we need to do, and we become even busier than one can imagine. Most of us though, feel like it is our responsibility to complete these things to meet other people’s expectations. Meeting other people’s expectations seems so trivial, and yet it is so important. In my life I feel that I have met and failed to meet expectations, as well as felt that something did not meet up to my expectations.

   

A time where I felt that I had met with other people’s expectations is when I volunteer and help other people out. Not only am I able to help other people and make a difference for them in a positive way, I feel that I also meet my own expectations, and feel good about myself afterward.                                       

    I believe that everyone wants to meet other people’s expectations; however it is never quite easy. One thing that I believe almost everyone can relate to is with our parents. More often than not, I feel that I have not met up with my parent’s expectations. Being at the time of my life where I need to start worrying about college, my parents care very much about my grades in school, and the ACT test scores. They are often discouraged by my grades or test scores, making me quite bothered by failing to meet with my parent’s standards.
   
    Something that I believe did not quite meet my expectations is having a dog. Before I had one, I very much wanted one. Upon adopting one from the humanity society, I found that it was very much different than what I had previously expected. My dog would be impossible to take on walks as he had way too much strength, and he would often run off after seeing a bunny. What I had first assumed would be fun and games, turned out to be more trouble than I had first expected it to be. However I still very much love my dog.
          
    Not everything can ever go as smoothly as we want, so from all this I have understood that you just have to feel good about yourself, and there is not much else too it. As long as you meet your own expectations, in some ways you have already succeeded.
   

Psych

    Who doesn’t like a good detective show? A good detective show would be even better though if the show was about a psychic detective, and that is exactly what my favorite show is about. Psych is about a detective named Shawn Spencer who’s amazing observational skills convince people that he indeed is a psychic. His abilities become useful as he starts to assist the Santa Barbara police department with various unusual cases.
   
    Every episode starts off with a flashback of Shawn when he was a kid. The flashbacks show his dad, an ex-police officer, who is trying to teach him to follow in his foot steps to become a police officer. Each one of these flashbacks sets the plot for the episode as well as provides an underlying message. In one episode the flashback begins with Shawn playing poker at his dad’s police station and winning. However his dad scolds him about the dangers of poker, and that you can not always win. The flashback then ends and just like you would have guessed the episode is about poker and the dangers of it. I guess something I enjoy from this show is the nostalgia it brings. As a child my parents would always tell me what I should do or shouldn’t do, but now that I think back, the advice have come in handy when I run across trouble.

    Each episode is unique in its own way. From catching criminals and masterminds, to finding missing mummies and dinosaur fossils, each episode is full of humorous, action packed, intense thrills. Every ending to the mystery is unique, and the criminal is never who you expect it to be. After just a few episodes, it has quickly caught my attention, and I started watching every episode.

    I do not really know why I enjoy watching this show this much. It may because of a sense of nostalgia, or perhaps the wittiness of Shawn Spencer, and his use of his photographic memory to solve these cases which makes it amusing to watch. Or perhaps I too want some type of adventure away from what feels like repetitiveness. Being some type of detective seems to be a fun job, full of thrill seeking challenges that have been missing out in my life. Perhaps I will look back one day, and see right now as a flashback, and realize just how exciting my life actually is. However until then, I guess I am impatient for the unknown future and what it brings. Too bad I'm not a psychic.