security and expectations

People want to know what they should expect before moving to an ecovillage. I would want to say... 'all of your expectations will be blown out the window'. Sometimes people have expectations because they are missing something in their lives. Someone might move to a farm type ecovillage to have food security because they dont personally have farming skills but they think they can depend on the farmers...and then its a bad growing year, therefore there's little food. The community struggles with buying food, and that person also struggles with the reality of how little security there is in this world.
I dont want to get into what expectations I may or may not have had before moving here. Not right now anyway.
What is the saying...'the only constant thing is change' ?
As I am writing this I wonder if its more about our unconscious expectations. Our unconscious commitments we make to keep ourselves stuck. The ones that make us want to run away from our problems. The patterns that seem to happen over and over no matter who we are with and where we are living.
Its got to be that...
I think :)
All I know is that I made conscious commitments to myself before moving 1000 miles away to an ecovillage. I had to. I knew I couldnt do this irrationally or unconsciously.
My commitments were to learn and grow,
be healthy
have fun
do major personal growth
make friends
be aware
learn learn and more learning in every moment
And all of those expectations are met
and are still being met all the time
And here is my realization....
You can only set expectations for yourself
anything else will be challenged, until you realize, its all about YOU!

The question really is ' what commitments do I have for myself in my life'?
and the security can only come from within