Lower my expectations would equate to a lower sense of disappointment during failures and higher sense of joy during successes.
There is no need to force myself to make anything work in my way. What is meant to be mine, will be mine anyway, no matter what. What isn't meant to be mine, will never be mine even if I die trying to make it mine.
My tears are precious water and letting them flow is akin to wasting fluids and allowing myself to dehydrate. Moreover, tears flowed for people who doesn't appreciate them is seriously foolish.
My life may mean a lot to those who loves me truly but yet it can be dust to those who doesn't value me as a human. So it is useless to waste my life on those who doesn't treat me right.
I am me. I do what I know is best for myself. I shall live my life in the way I like, for self-fulfulment. I shall pursue my life in the direction that I deem fit. No one can control me or stop me anymore. My life. My rules. My world. My goals. My dreams. My journey. Period.
The scars I bear are witnesses to my own failures and reminder that I am a stronger person fighting those battles. What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger. Enemies may try to break me but I don't stay down forever.
Goodbye.