Living Expectation-less…

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Expectations… all of us have them, a business owner expects his business to flourish and prosper. Parents expects their child to one day grow and be a successful person. An employee expects that one day, he will be a corporate figure. A wife expects her husband to be loyal and love her all her life.

This is truly natural, expectations gives us the hopeful feeling, it signifies our wish and not to forget, it is the foundation for our dreams. Having expectations is something good, it keeps us going when things seems to go on the opposite direction.

Nevertheless, there comes a time when expectations become the poison of one’s life. This happens primarily when expectations are not met regularly due to reasons beyond your control.

For example, vendors are expected to deliver excellence to an organization but they don’t meet the benchmark or bosses that are expected to promote hard-working employees but instead they promote another person. How about a husband that destroys expectations of loving endlessly when he commits an affair? Don’t forget at the same time, friends that are expected to stand by someone in times of need.

I only touched one factor beyond a person’s control, the human factor, there are other various factors such as economic, social, environmental, political etc.

Expectations that are not met holds as much impact as the benefits outlined in second paragraph. They take away hopeful feelings, does not personify any wishes and ultimately, collapses the foundation to our dreams. I am sure readers are already going ‘hmmmm’… agreeing to the statement I just made.

Realizing this fact, my advise for a truly happy life would be to live life without expectation on other factors because when they are not met, the effect is much more harmful compared to expectations that are met… it diminishes and takes a whole lot more to recover…

Expectations are crucial but let it be of your own… for yourself, by yourself! Like I always say, at the end of the day, there is only one person that will always be there for you, every step of the way, every arduous moments… yourself

~ by Nexus on October 18, 2008.