Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I'm right on track.
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.