I Adjusted My Life Expectations, and I’m Happier For It

Rosalyn Morris
ZORA
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3 min readMay 19, 2022

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I recently realized that I’ve adjusted my life expectations over the last few years, and I’m much happier for it. Maybe it was simply growing up. Maybe it was coming to grips with reality. I don’t know, and I actually don’t care, but I’m in love with my new outlook on life…

CAREER

I’m a writer first and foremost. I’ll never let that one go. My past aspirations included:

Nobel Prize for Literature (like Toni Morrison)

Pulitzer Prize for Literature

Guggenheim Fellowship for Literature

Have a short story published in the New Yorker

Write a book that’s assigned reading in classrooms across America

Have a movie adapted from one of my books

Sell millions of books and become a multi-millionaire from my book sales

Seven-figure book deal with a major publishing company

Please don’t laugh…

ADJUSTED CAREER EXPECTATIONS

Self-Publish through Amazon (a book or two a year, also short stories)…Thank you Amazon for making self-publishing accessible and profitable.

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