Limitations of Expectations
Design held too tight — potential squeezed out.
Expectation is a design held in the fist — promise of what should arrive, supposition dressed as law.
Motives push ahead. Prospects loom with each morning. Hope abounds until the blueprint starts punishing the room.
Hold too tight and potential narrows — not because you lack capacity, because you refused the sideways door.
Expectations are not stone. They are paths sketched in pencil by a self who did not know the weather yet.
Open mind is not naivete. It is leaving margin for the future to be larger than the story you rehearsed.
Unknown is not enemy. It is the dance floor when the choreography fails.
Grow and the path redraws. Stone was always a lie you told for comfort.
The fist still opens. You still allow the redraw.
JV · Dark Heart Labs