Expectations...

8.6.09

Futile Expectations

A new motto.

We must never expect anything. From anybody. It raises hopes, makes us dwell in momentary fantasies, and then ruins us with the bubble of imagination bursting into reality. It's unfair. Cruel. Ruthless. Pernicious.

And it affects our economy too. The spiral effect. As expectations rise, prices rise. As prices rise, in turn expectations rise even further. Vicious circle, yet again.

And so in life. Do not expect. Do not expect a sunny day, or a cold winter. Do not expect rewards or permanence. Do not look for gratitude or appreciation. If we do not expect anything... anything at all... we will be at ease with what comes our way. This is one small key to that bolted door of happiness. Do not expect anything.

But does that make us inanimate? Defunct? Emotionless? Pitiful?

No. Just indifferent.

We're ready to accept any path. The narrower path over the broader, the longer path over the shorter. We're aloof to either way. We acquire the wisdom to accept the things that we can not change and we move on. No regrets. No emotional breakdowns. No disappointments.

But the hard part is when we try to implement this. As after all we are humans? And it's an inbuilt feature in our human conscience to expect. It is our rationality that drives us to a crumbling collapse. No matter how hard we try to monitor ourselves, transforming into amateur robots, we still fall prey to hopes and dreams and ... expectations.

The consistent series of happenings seem to programme themselves in our minds so we may expect the same series of occurrences over and over and over.... Some expectations have so deeply penetrated our subconscious selves that we don't even realise it. And we don't even really need to. As until that bubble bursts, until night turns into day and day into night, and until humans stop giving birth to humans and until green leaves turn blue... and until the earth stops rotating and we stop breathing, we will continue to be the half robot we are. Trying desperately to administer our actions, thoughts and hopes and yet, feeling them the same... living with incessant expectations, curbing thoughts till they reach that turning into the lane of disappointment.