The word 'expectation' according to the American Heritage Dictionary reads: n. a. The act or state of expecting. b. eager anticipation: eyes shining with expectation. 2. The state of being expected. 3. (a) Expectations. Prospects. Esp. of inheritance. (b) something expected. 4. The expected value of a random variable, esp. the mean. 5. Expectancy (sense, 3b.).
To me, the word 'expectation' is the harbinger of woe. A suspensful animation of things or events as we think they should be, and when they do not come up to our 'expectations' we tend to feel used, abused, sad, lonely, miserable and depressed.
In order to survive our world, we must see the reality as life is, and not as we wish it to be, or even expect it to be. It is what it is, and we can only live it as we arise in the morning with the eastern sun and go to bed with the western wane as darkness approaches and we go off to sleep to rejuvenate our bodies and our souls.
What I think I want may not be what I need. Until we differentiate between the two, we live in a world of expectation and the circle goes around and around.
No two persons see the same object in the same light. Each one sees but with a mind set that makes what they see different as they gaze at the texture, color and substance of the piece they are looking at.
The same with taste, each one has taste buds that differ and what is delicious to one maybe absolutely tasteless to another.
Our hearing follows the same pattern and one may listen, but each of us hears the words with a different connotation and thus tall tales are born.
We feel, some with hands that know the softness and handle delicately, while others are rough and feel hardness.
Dealing with each other could be very simple if we had no expectations, but looked for the inner beauty that shines in everyone and find the core of the person, and do away with envy, greed, avarice, jealousy and hatred.
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