I expect your expectations!

So, as it turns out, as of Tuesday the 19th 2009 there is a new guy in the office. I heard that this fellow’s name is Barack Obama. That’s a interesting name. Apparently, its not just his name that is intriguing. From the same people that say he is important, I keep hearing things like “culturally exception”, “historic” and “ground-breaking”. I responded by saying “Really? It’s about dang time someone started breaking some historical ground. But what ground will he be breaking?”

That question has given much more varied answers. So I started listening the gossip, and the news and the talk radio shows. I was duly impressed. Apparently he is breaking all the ground, in every house, street, neighborhood, city, state, country and continent.

OMG! I said to my self thats a lot of ground. Then I stopped listening and started thinking. He can’t do that. I doubt Chuck Norris could even do that. Then after I stopped thinking I started feeling.

I have got to tell you. I didn’t feel all that good. Because not only did I feel bad for Obama, I felt bad for everyone that lives on the ground he was supposed to be breaking. Because in all my thinking, all I could think of was, “There is no way he can do this. Its to big. No matter how great he does in office. It is to big for anyone. Even someone with a name as big as Barack. Even with the support of a cohesive government. There is no way.”

Plus on top of the expectations of an entire planet, he has to go home at night a try to sleep, knowing full well that he can’t fulfill everyones hopes for him. The lack of sleep alone may be an insurmountable obstacle.

Fortunately, being the obnoxious pseudo-optimist that I am I had to convince myself that it is not that bad.

So far I have been pleasantly unsatisfied with the answers I have uncovered. It turns out that most people don’t expect what the news tells them they should expect. Because hands down the most common expectation I found was that, “He will get us started.”

Now it wasn’t that the unwashed masses said “started” that pleased me. It was that they said “us.” Us. We. He will be a catalyst that makes people start taking stock in thier own terra firma.

That is a great thing to expect. I hope he can deliver.

Until then “all your expectations are belong to us”. Of course by that I mean give me your expections.