A long way from my expectations

Expectations are something that provides an ordinary girl such as me a smidge of hope in the big wide world. They give you a frank view of the worst that can happen and anything else that occurs is a sucess. So as i'm currently going through the grueling process of applying for university, the careers advisors limit your choices to four universitys which are achievable and then one univeristy which is an aspirational choice and then they give you a boring lecture about how you shouldn't get your expectations up on the university which is aspirational for your ability, but as I was sitting there being put down by someone who sits on a computer for nine hours a day seeing pupils achieving and out achieving their own standards I began to think I wonder what there aspirations are? what did they ever want to be when they were younger? as for me, I always wanted to be a princess who would marry and become an international treasure, yet when I reached year six I knew this was no longer feesable as I no longer wanted to be a princess but an olympic athlete, that was me I thought I wanted to be a swimmer; even though im 5'3 and have no co-ordination in my body what so ever, I was set on it, I told my mum and dad that they should start saving for an olympic ticket, yet in year 9 I still wasn't an olympic swimmer or a princess, I was a student achieving average grades and playing sport at a average standard, I looked at my friends who were always amazing at one particular subject and they all had expectations for themselves such as Doctors, Primary school teachers and even one that was determined to be the next prime minister of the country, and at this point I decided I was going to be an astronount, even though I was failing physics but that was me I was set on my career path, I was going to the American Space centre and setting off on a rocket destined for space. Im now seventeen, have never been in space, never been a princess;(even though I own a tiara) and I certainly haven't grown and my co-ordination is getting worse with age. So as I sat in careers I was thinking do you think she had planned to be a careers adviser? was that her dream when she was little? The future is upon me and nows the time to make solid decisions for the future, and for me thats the most scariest thing. I can't think of anything worse than sitting in an office for nine hours a day on a computer being subjected to the same routine every single day. Im just not for that, I get bored way too easy! And as you can see, I have quite high dreams. Expectations allow us to see what is physically possible for us, almost like a worst case scenario, but the best thing abotu expectation is that you can suceed it.