Its human nature to expect something. Be it be marks from exam or how the other people will behave with you. Expecting what you will get as a gift and expecting what you will get from your boss after doing a good job.
I also used to expect until it really fucked up my life. I expected to get good marks, I expected my friends to understand me, I expected my parents to buy me things and when expectations were not fulfilled, bang, things went bad. One time it went worse!
Why do we need to expect at all? I left expecting things and got to hear its a pessimistic approach. How is that pessimistic? Will my expecting something bring a change to what I am going to get? It will never! Moreover, if I expect to get a condom on my birthday and I get it, it will be so normal. The element of surprise to make me happy will be missing!
Expectations can land you in lot of trouble, say you're expecting your friend to save your ass when you have been caught doing something illegal and the friend doesn't help you then you are watching him as a villain, you're blind towards what might be going in his mind, you're not at all seeing his side, the difficulties he has in helping you. You're taking your friend for granted! He has is ethics, why should he be acting on your expectations?
Expecting good marks also never helps for you're never going to get it, well most of you! You expect to get 60 and you get 40, you're sad, you expect nothing and you get 40, its like you have got something! Even if you get 60 after expecting 60, it will be like a normal thing for you, yeah I have expected this, you won't be that happy!
I have left expecting about 2 years back and everyday I get surprised, everyday I feel yeah something new happened. Life has been fun this way!
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5 comments:
I had this topic in mind..I mean..I personally wanted to write on it..the same points are covered by you :)
And yes! life without expectations is far more exciting than the one with expectations..and its more of a practical approach to life.. I am "trying" to inculcate that :)
expect the unexpected ... :)
this is what i always do
i never expect from anyone.because it hurts when expectations dont come upto mark
specially with other people
Expectation keeps you going...but they kills if you start expecting from others...you expect others (prople and sources) to give you happiness which is more or less like gambling
Stop expecting from others and develop expectations from your self...without any expectations how would you dream and enjoy life
Expect things from urself - makes you ambitious and then fucks up ur own life!
Expect things from others - Get a life!
Try to live up to expectations - Fucking loser!
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