The expectations that we place on each other can often lead to disappointment and stress, especially when things don’t turn out as “we” expected! Set those expectations on water and let them float away, now live your life without them. Life without expectations means you accept people as they are; yourself as you are.
Picture all the expectations you have for yourself, your life, your spouse, your kids, your coworkers, your job, the world. Take them from inside you, and toss them in the water. What happens then? They float away, carried by waves. The further they are taken from you the more cleansed your life becomes!
We build these expectations in our heads of what other people should do, what our lives should be like, how other drivers should behave … and yet it’s all fantasy. It’s not real. And when reality doesn’t meet our fantasy, we wish the world were different.
What’s a life without expectations like? It means you accept reality as it is, and people as they are, without expectations, without trying to force people into the containers you have for them, seeing things as they are. It’s a life where you don’t need to be disappointed or frustrated or angry — or if you are, you accept it, and then let it go.
If you do something good, you won’t expect praise or appreciation. Let those expectations of reward and praise float away with the waves. Do good because you love doing good, and expect nothing beyond that.
Notice if you start to wish things weren’t the way they are. If you wish someone else didn’t do something, notice that. You have expectations, and you wish people or the world could have met them instead of doing what they actually did. Toss those wishes in the ocean too. Now accept things, and move on.
I can be the change I seek in this world… I will remember that the best things in life are unexpected because there were no expectations!
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