The Gap Between Expectation and Reality

a poem and a challenge

I find that sometimes there’s a gap between “this is what’s supposed to feel good”

and

“this is what currently feels good”

with expectations framing current experiences, sometimes in a genuine way, yet others imposing an expectation that feels yet worse if it no longer actually creates this experience.

#WritingPrompt: The gap between expectation and reality.

Inviting Sahil Patel | A.M. Radulescu | brian g gilmore (bumpyjonas) | Isabel Young | Diana Dee | Rachael Ann Sand| Azadehruh Alam | Marilyn J Wolf | Swagat Choudhury| Cara J. Jaye | if you’re up to it and anyone else interested to smash that writer’s block, join in on this tiny challenge and write a response, wherever it takes you! It can be a tiny poem, a shortform piece or an essay — whatever comes into that brain noodle!

Hi I’m Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) and I wrote this thinking about a tangible example but realized there was a whole meme format with this, with the “expectation” vs. “reality” baking examples where cute cookie recipes are tested and turn out to be grotesque bleeding screaming gingerbread people. It’s something like that, I suppose. 📚📚 PS, I published a book of tiny poems!

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^ by Arbab Z.