Expectations

Going through one of my journals from a few years back I just came upon this...
"I have felt for years...that you shouldn't get carried away with your expectations of
others...lest you set yourself up for being let down. Once...in one of my harder edged
moments...I even wrote down a formula about expectations..."No Expectations = No
Disappointments + A Few Pleasant Surprises". Expectations of another human being...
require that the other person deliver on what you see to be fit at the time. This
doesn't allow for the other person's uniqueness...where he or she is at in his or her
journey...priorities...interests...and a host of other individual factors. Perhaps in
tribal societies...expectations that come out of the group's interdependence and
survival...are to be expected...but in a society made up of individuals...each one
fending for him or herself...there are more factors at play...that may influence your
expectations of others...not being delivered on"..............Quester.