Expectations

Expectations lead to disappointment. When you project an expectation onto someone else's behavior, and they don't fulfill that expectation; you are disappointed. For me, this all comes right back to the true concept of personal responsibility. We aren't supposed to depend on, or expect someone else's behavior to make us happy. Those are our expectations, they aren't the other persons responsibility to fulfill. I am not saying that if someone told you, "I will pay the power bill on the 27th." and then they don't... that that is your fault if you are let down. That is a broken agreement and entirely different. But if you expect that someone should know how you're feeling, or you expect someone should make you feel any certain way, or that someone should evoke some type of emotion in you, or you in them.. then you may find yourself disappointed frequently. It is our responsibility to make ourselves happy. To find that which fulfills us, without depending on another. Maybe if we spent a little more time finding ways to make those around us a little happier, or make their lives a little easier, we would have less time to count up the expectations that someone else in our lives wasn't able, or didn't care to meet. I guess what I'm trying to say is... if we are looking to have expectations fulfilled, we should look to ourselves. Expect more from ourselves, then if you're disappointed, you know exactly how to fix it!