• Reality vs. Expectations It’s a typical day. Your alarm goes off, you wake up and you do your morning ritual: take a shower, get dressed, eat breakfast, brush your teeth and off to school you go. You want this to happen like you expect it. You only realize however, you overslept, you skip breakfast, forget to brush your teeth and you quickly find the clothes you see to wear. You become mad at yourself because this was not what you had in mind. This is a phase called Expectations vs. Reality. Everyone has gone through this phase at least once. It can apply to anything, anywhere of daily life. On one mind, you have the expectations. This is when you expect something to happen or what you want to happen. On another mind, there’s reality: the actuality of your expectations. Let’s say you take a test knowing you’re going to ace it only to find that you failed. That sucks. Another example would be going on a date. You’re nervous; you think it’ll be a disaster. It’s concluded that it actually went well as you thought it wouldn’t. Which is a good thing, right? An alternative name to this is called Reverse Psychology, persuasion technique involving the advocacy of a belief or behavior that is opposite to the one desired, with the expectation that this approach will encourage the subject of the persuasion to do what is desired: the opposite of what is suggested. So, they’re almost the same but the difference is that you can be able to control reverse psychology by telling something or someone the opposite of what you want them to say or do, expecting that they will do the opposite of what you say. Examples are presented everywhere in books and media. Having been inspired by one of my favourite scenes, (500) Days Of Summer gave me the inspiration when a particular scene where two panels are separated in half with expectations on one side and reality on another. In expectations, main character Tom goes to a party and wins back his ex-girlfriend, Summer. In reality, he doesn’t win her back, he finds out she’s engaged and he storms out, frustrated. I think that if everything does go as planned, it’s just merely coincidental and luck. If not, well, you can’t always get you want. Whatever happens happen.

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