Reblog: Stop expecting people to be better than they are

“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” ~Donald Miller.

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” ~Bruce Lee.

“You can’t expect people to be like you.” ~Being Erica

Some of you will be surprised to know some people act in a certain way because they believe that’s how somebody like them is expected to act. That reminds of the following quote: “All the world’s a stage,. And all the men and women merely players.” ~William Shakespeare

In the same way, our expectations of people often prevent us from seeing them for who they really are too, for example, you expect doctors to look and behave like doctors, but they are only men and women; and just like you, who have their own expectations of how they…