Forget expectation and head directly into celebration. Do not pass go. Collect happiness along the way.
When we live our lives from a place of expectation we are essentially traversing across it similar to how this bridge is above the water. Expectation is the fastest way to kill choice, both for ourselves and also for others. Life is best lived in the trenches not on the surface and certainly not from on high. Getting down and dirty in our true lives is where the real fun is experienced.
Do not confuse wanting with expecting. Often I believe we can default into expecting because in fact we are not certain what we want or how to get it. If we simply choose to expect it then the problem of getting it becomes the responsibility of others. That is a clearly misplaced responsibility. Each of us was given free choice. That is both the bad news and the good news wrapped together.
The bad news is that having free choice means having to undertake to both understand and communicate our choices (first to ourselves and then to others). The good news is that once we are clear about our choice it is so much easier to ask for it. And as the saying goes “ask and you shall receive”. Okay I admit I sometimes take literary license, however therapy testosterone human growth hormone hgh, that is my choice. Did you expect otherwise? Smile.
If you become the target of an-others expectations I have a suggestion to make. Leave it with them, for they know not what they do. It is impossible to live up to the expectations of another. And it is disrespectful for another to place their expectations on us. Everyone has free choice. So when we find ourselves in receipt of an-others expectation our best course of action is to immediately return it to them (preferably unopened).
And should we find ourselves in the unenviable position of being in receipt of an expectation of our own creation then we need to either set it free or leave it behind. It does not matter where the expectation comes from and we do not need to spend anytime analyzing it as that only gives energy to it. Set it aside and move into choice. The tough question in life is “who am I and what do I want”. The easiest way to be distracted in life is asking “why”.
And so today, and hopefully every day I choose to live my life openly and freely as part of the human family. Deciding what I want, choosing who I am, asking for support along the way and sharing life in a thoughtful, generous and loving way. And so it is.
