EXPECTATIONS

 

                   EXPECTATIONS

‘Expectations’ are future hopes, prospects, speculations, calculations, presumptions, beliefs, assurances, assumptions, conjectures, etc. They are always there. Whatever we do, we do with one or more expectation. In this sense, expectations are motivators. We won’t like to do any piece of work which is void of worthwhile expectations.

It is possible that our expectations are miscalculated. They are more than they can be actually realized. Sometimes they turn out to be fewer than their pre-calculated number.

Un-realized expectations disappoint and depress us, yet we want to do nothing without imagining hopeful expectations.

Life without expectations is futile. It will de-motivate us and make us idle. It will be like planting a fruitless tree with great labour. Our nature is to look forward to encouraging results from our actions. Every action is yoked with solitary or multiple expectations.

Somebody has rightly said that we part more easily with what we possess, than with the expectation of what we wish for; and the reason of it is that what we expect is always greater than what we enjoy.

Whereas every religion says we have to reap what we sow, Lord Krishna’s Bhagwad Gita preaches rewardless action. It says we have the right to perform actions, but no right to expect their reward.

Finally, here is a popular quotation: When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointments.

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G.R.Kanwal

2^nd September 2024