Everyone knew that if you divided reality by
expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation -
expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What
you got, Lewis realized, was hope. [Jodi
Picoult, Nineteen
Minutes]
Earlier I was writing about the ideas that dance in my head and dress themselves up like SHOULDS. It is really a rotten way to treat myself, having Expectations. But the thing is it is just so easy. Effortless.
The real effort comes when I call Expectation by its own
name.
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. [Margaret Mitchell]
Knowing a thing is great but living as though you DO is
another altogether. So many thoughtsandfeelings are clomp-stomping through me
that have no legs whatsoever. It’s no wonder I feel perpetually out of breath
and dizzy.
We go from disappointment to disappointment, from hope
to denial, from expectation to surrender, as we grow older, thinking or coming
to think that what was wrong was the wanting, so intense it hurt us, and
believing or coming to believe that hope was our mistake and expectation our
error, and that everything the more we want it the more difficult the having it
seems to be. [Alfred
Hayes, In
Love]
Ohhhhhhh… I see.
I love you, Currie
2 comments:
Have to think this over for a while! Meanwhile, wishing you a wonderful Easter:)
I think you can be expectant without being fixed on the outcome, you know? Just being expectant of life...of your day. Excited to see what happens. ;)
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