THE LOWER I KEEP MY EXPECTATIONS...
“K eep no expectations,” the free advice goes, “you won’t be disappointed.” As I said, it is a free advice… You get it from everyone around you, everywhere. I give it you, you give it to me and they all give it to you and me! All free! Can we really live in this world keeping no expectations? I have tried and I have failed… I don’t know about you. What I know is this: Every act - every gesture - I do towards others, I do keep my expectations while doing it. When my expectations are met, I feel happy… and when they are not met, I feel unhappy. Yes, my disappointments come when people do not thank me enough, compliment me enough, compensate me enough, love and care for me enough… when they do not behave as I expect them to… when they keep doing things which I don’t want them to… when they say things I don’t want to hear… and when they come home when I want to be left alone… and so on… I also know this: becau...