“Drop your expectations”
Today, I would ask you to release your plans and your worries for a moment and allow yourself to be one with the moment, one with the world, one with all that is in its perfection.
Know that you create this world of perception. Know that there are many, many ways to view any one situation. If you have set certain expectations on a moment, then no matter what happens, you feel disappointed because those expectations have not been met. And yet, there may have been many positive outcomes in the situation, simply not those that you expected. If you look back, you will see many instances of this, where a person or a situation did not live up to what you had wanted, but that in retrospect you can see that the situation was acceptable and perhaps even preferable to your expectations.
Day dreaming, hoping, and setting expectations are dangerous activities, in that they may color your perceptions of what does happen in an inappropriately negative way. Today, allow things to be as they are, without the added layer of your expectations.
Allow people to be who they are. Their job is to be, not to meet your expectations of how they should be. Today, give everyone the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps that person who just walked by and didn’t speak to you was not being rude to you, but didn’t even see you, because he was absorbed in some personal issue you are not even aware of. Perhaps that person who seems so lazy and didn’t complete what you had wanted has other things to deal with that you are not considering.
Again, your expectation of receiving a particular response or having some activity performed in a certain way in a certain timeframe has colored your perception of what may be, in fact, a perfectly acceptable action on their part, given the context within which they are living and working.
The world contains so much that you do not even see, since you are filtering out that which you either do not want to see or have simply not trained yourself to allow in. Dropping your expectations is a wonderful first step toward allowing the world to unfold in wonder, just as it is.
-author unknown
