Expectations
Despite what your common sense may tell you, research shows that people are especially clumsy at predicting how they feel in various situations. For example: Buying things online, ordering food delivery, or just going shopping may discourage you when expectations don’t meet reality. Sometimes a product, a service, or something you made yourself looks so absurdly different from your expectations, that you may want to laugh and cry at the same time.
So have your expectations ever been fulfilled?
I know we have always been wanting to fulfill our expectations. Also, we tend to expect more than what we have, and because of which we get so immersed in attaining, that forgetting the reality seems pretty easy. Actually, we expect everything to go smooth and perfect because we have always been shown the results, not its process. Because of which we keep imposing results on ourselves or others. There is this possibility that what we expect may not come true even counting a lot of hurdles as well and which shows the ultimate reality. Eventually, if things do not go our way we are forced to accept this reality, not the expectations we have built.
And at times we become slaves to other expectations and hence try to fulfill them. But we don’t realize what we are doing, because it has been taught that way just to follow everything blindly. And while processing it we forget that there are piles of expectations that already exist on our tiny shoulders waiting to get completed one day. Nevertheless, leading it to increase every day.
So is it rightly said? — Expectation kills!!!
OMG, what did I just say? But sometimes expectation indeed kills us. It kills our confidence, positive attitude, and our energy also. We get hurt when things don’t happen as they were expected. This demotivates us. This makes us question our capabilities. This makes us ponder upon our intellect. This changes us as an individual.
But on the other hand, doesn’t an expectation help us to set a bar so that we can achieve a little of what we are expecting? “Expectations create a sensation of being alive” therefore always keep expecting something from yourself, not from others. Just predict for a while “if you have no goal for life, no charm, no new ideas, no hunger to gain something then will you be happy? Always mark the word that expectation is key for every next door in life.
Expectation may be too toxic sometimes only if we are agonizing because of it and letting it affect our normal living. But we can also think positively about expectations and how if let go of them, reality can exceed them in ways we never expected.
