Should we Expect more? Should we confine to reality?
We expect because we trust. If we cannot trust everyone, then why do we expect
from everyone? Expectation is the root of pessimism. We expect from family and friends, parents, siblings, teachers, government and political leaders. But how many of them really live up to our expectations? When people don’t, we stop to trust people and at the end, we have no one else to blame but us. |
As they say people learn from their mistakes, likewise even I learnt from my mistake of keeping outrageous expectations from my friend. We were a small group of friends with a strong bond between us. One of the member was the closest to me... who I always supported, and the fallacious part was where I expected the same in return. One day during an intense argument I expected her to understand me, however, I was speechless when she told me, “You are WRONG”, without even listening to my side of the argument. That was the last time we spoke until today.
After months of indifferent feelings, I finally decided like venting out my silent scream and so I went to consult my cousin who is a therapist. He was someone who I needed all this while, who understood me rather than just plainly saying that I’m ‘wrong’. He said, “The two main ways to avoid disappointment and be happy is to improve the reality and to lower the expectations.” Trust me when I say this, I never felt this high spirited in a long time.
This is the grim reality of this world we live in. The more we expect, the more false hopes we invite to ourselves. Expecting from people is not wrong, but having complete faith in our presumptions, we will gradually dispirit ourselves. People are not here to meet your expectations. |
Written By: Batul, Filza, Afrah and Abia 11A
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