Thoughts on Expectations

The world would be such a different place if there were no expectations. There would be so much less disappointment. When you think about it, most disappointment stems from some sort of expectation. We wouldn’t fail because we couldn’t expect something to be better than reality. I know that this is fairly negative thinking and there is a completely different side to the idea of expectations but I challenge you to look at things in a different light.

Imagine life as a child who knows nothing, expects nothing of the world. They live their lives in constant wonder. Life is a one big surprise to them. How cool is that?

If we expect nothing from a day, then waking up is a miracle in itself. If you don’t expect anything, then every moment is a wonderful surprise and we can’t help but to be filled with joy.

“Instead of filling with expectations, the joy-filled expect nothing and are filled.”

If we learn to control how much we expect from the world, then every good thing that happens to us fills us with joy and the bad things don’t seem to hit us as hard. And as my wise friend Jack Yakowicz once said: “The best times in my life have been the result of surprises, not expectations.”