Some questions to ponder:
When is it okay to expect something?
When is it better to enter a situation with a completely open mind?
Why do people have expectations?
Do expectations always have to come from an outside source?
If not, where do they come from?
Whose responsibility are expectations?
Should we curb our own expectations?
If our expectations came to us from a reliable source and we are disappointed, whose fault is it?
Is it better to be let down and be forced into an open yet critical mind?
All these situations keep occurring or not occurring, and I've been wondering how my expectations of how they would happen have affected my perspective of them.
If I know how something will turn out, will it be better?
If I'm let down, then is being critical better?
If I go in with an open mind and not expect anything, will I achieve anything?
The balance between expecting the right things, expecting the wrong things, and not expecting anything is a very delicate triangle. I think that for every situation or person, the right answer lies on a different point in that plane, but that it's impossible to know exactly where it lies until after the situation occurs.
Did you begin to read this expecting a boring account of the goings-on of the flat? Did you expect a barely comprehendible philosophical pondering? How has that affected the way you read this?
If you're disappointed, then has that given you a more negative view of this than you would have had without that expectation? If you're pleasantly surprised, then is it better?
Practically, how can we prepare ourselves for these situations?
We can't, really.
Logically, we have to look at every situation and try to find the right balance, and then hope we're right (or wrong, depending on where you placed it on that scale).
There's expectations and there's life. And to be perfectly honest, neither of them are that reliable anyway.
When is it okay to expect something?
When is it better to enter a situation with a completely open mind?
Why do people have expectations?
Do expectations always have to come from an outside source?
If not, where do they come from?
Whose responsibility are expectations?
Should we curb our own expectations?
If our expectations came to us from a reliable source and we are disappointed, whose fault is it?
Is it better to be let down and be forced into an open yet critical mind?
All these situations keep occurring or not occurring, and I've been wondering how my expectations of how they would happen have affected my perspective of them.
If I know how something will turn out, will it be better?
If I'm let down, then is being critical better?
If I go in with an open mind and not expect anything, will I achieve anything?
The balance between expecting the right things, expecting the wrong things, and not expecting anything is a very delicate triangle. I think that for every situation or person, the right answer lies on a different point in that plane, but that it's impossible to know exactly where it lies until after the situation occurs.
Did you begin to read this expecting a boring account of the goings-on of the flat? Did you expect a barely comprehendible philosophical pondering? How has that affected the way you read this?
If you're disappointed, then has that given you a more negative view of this than you would have had without that expectation? If you're pleasantly surprised, then is it better?
Practically, how can we prepare ourselves for these situations?
We can't, really.
Logically, we have to look at every situation and try to find the right balance, and then hope we're right (or wrong, depending on where you placed it on that scale).
There's expectations and there's life. And to be perfectly honest, neither of them are that reliable anyway.
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