ANTICIPATION
“Anticipation” is defined as the fact of seeing that
something might happen in the future. It is natural to make an effort to
foresee future events, pleasant or unpleasant. The results of what we do are
not always immediate. Many a time they occur after the near or distant future.
Whether they will be according to our liking is unpredictable. Optimists expect
positive turn ups; pessimists, fear unhappy outcomes.
Anticipation is also connected with one’s fate which cannot
be foreseen. Future is invisible and therefore its nature cannot be guessed
accurately. However, it is desirable that we should hope for the good and avoid
anticipating evils.
It is true to say that
the joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they
will be. But it is also desirable to believe that we always reap that which we
sow. We live in a world of cause and effect, action and reaction, goodness and evil,
pain and pleasure.
The English Writer
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) says: The hours we pass with happy prospects in view
are more pleasant than those crowned with fruition. In the first case we cook
the dish to our own appetite; in the last it is cooked for us.
The French author Francois de La Rochefoucauld claims that our desires disappoint us; for
though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never
thoroughly answers our expectation.
According to the
English novelist and poet George Eliot (1819-1880): Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Is it not surprising that even astrologers, horoscope
writers, do not prove right in their predictions.
The world is a closed book. It is also a mixed bag of success
and failure. Therefore, don’t rely on anticipations. Always wait for the
results to appear.
Finally, this saying about anticipation: Expecting is the
greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
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G.R.Kanwal
27 November 2024
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