Group Community Project Evaluation: The Risk of Striving for Perfection Group Community Project was presented on the 25th of April, 2023, at the Australian College of Applied Profession. Introduction of the Event: Unrealistic expectations from society can put a lot of pressure on young adults. Many young people feel like they need to have their lives figured out by a certain age or achieve certain milestones to succeed. This pressure can come from parents, peers, society, or within. The pressure to meet unrealistic expectations can adversely affect a young adult's mental health and well-being. It can lead to feelings of anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. It can also cause them to make decisions that do not align with their values and aspirations but rather what they think will impress others. When Expectations are unmet, it can lead to feelings of disappointment, frustration, and even anger; this social expectation can damage one’s self-identity, which is why our theme serves the social issues: mental health, education, health care, and self-care. Objectives: To form a conversation on the root causes of unrealistic expectations within today’s society. To understand the uniqueness of each individual's perspectives & experiences regarding social expectations. Enhance each individual's confidence to become comfortable discussing this expectation with other members of society. Identify how we can bring forth societal change and advocate societal change. Evaluation of the Participants’ Feedback Did you enjoy the event today? Among the six participants, all were happy with the event but there were some amendments they wanted us to improve for the next event. Other than that, all participants enjoyed and want more of these events in the future. What did you find attractive in today’s theme? For this, people gave us feedback saying that they could express and share lived experiences and understand social expectations through the activities that were conducted. Some people even shared that they could reflect on their actions. Additionally, people liked the activities that we as a group had conducted. In your opinion, did this project meet its objectives? (Yes/ No) Fortunately, all the community members replied yes, saying the project met its objectives. Which topics would you like to see covered at the future community project? For this, 60% of Community members responded that they want to see the struggle for choosing the right career as the next topic. In comparison, 20% and another 20% responded that they want to see workplace mental health and beauty standards, respectively. What are future improvements that you think we can focus on further? All the community members were pleased with the theme. They responded that for future improvements, we could show more videos related to unrealistic expectations to society so that they can see how people are currently dealing with these expectations.

I feel sad for this generation, especially because the world has set them perfect lifestyle examples mostly through social media, making them compete. They are so blind to reach that goal that they lose themselves and eventually their identity. I wish we could stop this by preaching to children at home and school. Most children have lost their confidence in their self-identity from an early age just because their parents have set an example: "hey, you should be a doctor..pilot ". They feel scared that if they don't achieve this, they will let down their parents' expectations, and who wouldn't want to see their parents happy? Hence this should stop, and we should let them explore who they want to be.

true and even though we know it hampers us , there is not much we can do about it. Low self esteem is so deeply rooted that we find it so hard to overcome it . The only way possible to abolish this is to teach them from childhood that No Answer is Wrong, We should Speak Up and Try every time.

True society has given us so many examples of people who are perfect and we try to imitate them. Maybe that has caused people to lose themselves or have identity crisis . the competition and bar is set up way to high.

This is just another sad reality of today's world. We are moving forward in life, and we need people who can think individually and freely. But the pace of dictating children and their life hasn't changed much. I think children should be guided, but not every time, with restrictions; the more the restrictions, the more it increases the curiosity, and hence the problem increases in one's life. Let them explore their life themselves, and I believe we learn by doing rather the listening to stories about what could go wrong.

yeah but isnt that what keeps us going now ? I feel like it gives meaning to our life, we dont have social ladder to climb then we will be stuck in the same place while rest of them will go front. They can have a life as per their want but if we dont then we will always be middle class .

True, change starts within. I hope your an example to everyone around you .

TRUE ! The application should verify the users age so that the underage children dont misuse it.

Thank you for your feedback Sita. Yes, today we can see that parents are handing over phones to their children at such young age to stop them from crying or to distract them . This needs to stop or at least limit their screen time .