Why do you live up to people's expectations? It's a really bad idea.
The biggest mistake you can make is demonstrating any competence and willingness to do something people like. What happens next is that you are now contractually obligated until you die to do whatever is they expect of you. And you don't even have to do it well. Just showing up is enough for most people these days. As long as you pretend to chip in your part everything is as rosey as a syphillitic's piss.
I think about why people ask me to do anything, and I know it sounds impossible but it does happen. If I don't screw something up consistently, it becomes perfectly fair for society to expect me to do it on a regular basis. The problem starts with the fact that nowadays if someone asks me to pick them up from the airport I try to do it, and I'm there pretty much on time.
Just like all the rest of you soft bellied demi-hairless omnivores, I want people to like me. It's really a pointless wish, since you can't make people like you, and when you fake anything to win someone over all you're doing is kissing ass anyway. I suppose you can force people to like you, but that takes many years and expensive mind warping pharmaceuticals.
I want people to think I'm so great that they'll give me their blood, kidneys, retina's, ovaries. I want to be worshipped. This urge makes me try to please people, and it makes me try and live up to people's expectations.
Fuck that.
What I should be doing is drinking in the airport lounge at the wrong airport and trying to steal a stewardesses stupid hat or sneak on a plane. People don't seem to mind if you're a fuck up as long as you're totally consistent. For example, the stand up comic Carrot Top.
No one expects a whole lot from carrot top. They certainly don't expect him to be funny. He is a red haired screeching disappointment, and no one asks him for favors.
I'm fucking tired of people's expectations. What amazes me is that I could actually feel that someone else is qualified to lay out what I should or shouldn't be doing. I am a total fuck-up, but so is everyone else. Everyone I know is trying on the surface to look like a rock while under the surface they're just barely holding down the shack in the shit-storm. Why should I care what they think I should be doing?
If I decide to start listening to Nine Inch Nails, dye my hair purple and ask an 80 pound woman to marry me that's my choice. As an aside, I do not plan on doing any of those things. But fuck off with your "you should do this".
I don't want to, and if these people weren't shitheads they would realize that it's dumb for them to want me to do it. I'm not gonna be anyone's footman, except satan.
Now then, my advice for you, since every last one of you is always going to be a disappointment to someone, including me. Don't listen to a word anyone says, especially your parents, but double especially me. Now get out there and kick some ass.