So if you read yesterday’s post and I successfully performed inception on your mind and you’re thinking, “Huh, I think I’ll try not having expectations when I try things today and see what happens.” Awesome, man. That’s so cool that I wiggled my fingers on the keyboard and put this page on WordPress for you to find. You read my article and my words reached your brain where they changed how you view the world a little bit. That’s quite simply miraculous. (PSYCHIC POWERS >:O)
Keep in mind that these realizations are new to me too (like, a few days new) and that means I’ll keep realizing a little more as I explore them a little bit. I wanted to flesh out something else I realized about expectations.
Expectations can go meta. Today, I decided to talk to a stranger in line waiting for food. It was going well, we were talking about whatever I wanted (and really, that’s all conversation is), but I had this faint thought in my mind. “What if I run out of stuff to say?” That’s an expectation that I should be good at talking. I realized that and got scared. I thought I wasn’t supposed to have expectations? Then, I realized that fear was another expectation. The expectation that I shouldn’t have expectations.
You have to keep in mind that even changing that mindset takes time. You’re not used to it, so don’t worry if you still feel expectations. Expect it. You will mess up. Take it one trial at a time and you’ll eventually get there. (Lol, the mind is a chaotic, spaghetti thing. Insert Jackie Chan meme here.)
There’s more stuff about this I’d like to go through, but it’s not really along the same vein, so I’ll leave it for another day.
Starting stopwatch…
Time: 23 minutes, 3 seconds
Git Commit
Learned:
-You can now move the pieces 🙂
-Lines are cleared
-The lines number is displayed
–View the prototype here
I will come back to expectations later, but I wanted to shift to something a little lighter next in the series, What I learned playing League of Legends. I literally spent years playing that game… you bet I learned something from it.
20 Minutes A Day 
you loser
you talk to strangers all the time
try to pick up chicks
after discussing it for a half hour
what are you
you think i don’t know you?
why are you writing tetris in a browser
go learn assembly and hate yourself
>writes tetris in JS
>plays league
>you’re a meme modern dev
don’t do that
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I don’t talk to strangers all the time. I am socially inexperienced. I wanted to talk to that guy, so I did. I didn’t expect him to enjoy it, I didn’t expect to be the cool guy. Again, I am bad at socializing and that’s where I am. But everyone starts somewhere. I could talk to him because I could accept that I will probably come across as a loser. Am I fine with that? Yes. Now I can do it without fear. If I am ready for the negative outcome, what’s left to be afraid of?
I want to be completely okay with this blog being shitty. Then I’ll never quit even if everyone hates it.
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