beauty over purpose

I've had an interesting chat with my boy this week about expectations. When guessing how much each street had raised, he would guess higher than myself - though was always nearer than my estimate. I asked him why I might have a lower figure in mind, and said it was so I would hopefully not then be disappointed. I do admire however, his high hopes, and think it is actually important to aim for the stars and dream big.
In other aspects of my life, I realise I often have high expectations and so am frequently let down. Thinking the best of people is good and I never want to change that. But - and it has been levelled at me before - maybe I ought to have more realistic expectations to save myself the disappointments.

I had high hopes for the weekend - I was really looking forward to some time off and fun. The weekend did not go to plan at all. I worked as much on Sunday as I would any other day of the week, and the things that I thought were going to happen didn't. Some things were better than anticipated. I'm v grateful to the friend who urged me - when I was deliberating just how much help to accept with the counting of bags from others streets - to ask them to do EVERYTHING! And so I did and it freed me up to get into the garden to tackle that. I think the flowers in my garden are beautiful, the only problem is this is supposed to be a path. I've left most of them to flourish - beauty over purpose, form over function, chaos over control and colour rather than concrete :) Hope you also get to see lots of beautiful things where they are not supposed to be :)