Life Is All About Managing Your Expectations (25 Pics & Vids)

My therapist says anger stems mostly from setting the wrong expectations, and if you want to be happy, maybe don’t expect the final result of your recipe, or the shirt you buy, to look and feel exactly like the picture you see online?

I don’t know.

Either way, here are some expectations vs. reality memes that’ll make it painfully clear how often we don’t set proper expectations.


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Three flavours of icecream from r/ExpectationVsReality

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Even worse – it’s stale. from r/ExpectationVsReality

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My husband likes novelty socks. Guess I really knocked it out of the park with these personalized Divvy Up socks of our daughter… from r/ExpectationVsReality

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My girlfriend spent $100 to get me a White Claw cake for my birthday. She was less than pleased with the result. from r/ExpectationVsReality

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If you can read this, if you can read this from r/ExpectationVsReality

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