Expectations

I wanted to share some thoughts about expectations today. As much as we would like to deny, expectations are everywhere. It seem that humans are creatures who cannot live without expectations.

Let's start with basic expectations....we expect the sun to rise everyday, we expect to get some madness at work, we expect to be happy when we meet a loved one. We look forward to certain things in life. To me that is expectation.

At work, we expect a promotion or raise if we do a good job. We expect our bosses to be understand. We expect our subordinates to be star performers, maybe not.

At home, we expect our kids to do their best in school. We expect our domestic helper to keep the house clean, feed the kids, do the laundry.

But we hope against hope that our expectations do not come with disappointment. The saying "the higher the expectations, the bigger the disappointment".

The strange thing about humans is their inability to remove expectations from their lives, regardless of the number of disappointments we experience. We don't seem to learn from "mistakes" or past experience. Why?

Because expectations come with hope. Hope is positive. Hope makes us look forward to positive things. But hope doesn't seem to come with expectation. We can hope but we don't expect. Confusing? What did you expect?