Some people have reached the conclusion that it’s better to live without expectations. Life is too unpredictable and events cannot be so predetermined. Better to literally leave it one day at a time and get through that day the best way you can and let the chips fall where they will.
It’s a reasonable approach to life because there are many elements of truth that can be appreciated. It would be ridiculous to navigate life as though we can set everything before us in a calculated manner. Life does not work that way. That would be setting ourselves up for failure.
Yet there are little things in life that suggest that living in expectation is no bad thing. If you were into gardening, the entire enterprise is based on expectation. Plant a seed and expect a fruitful outcome. Parents who invest time and effort bringing up their children on certain values have an expectaiton of those children as they grow older.
Why should you not have a degree of application of that in other aspects of your life? Plant those seeds at different junctures of your life and you can at least live in hope, right? Then at least you might see some value in living in hope.
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C. L. J. Dryden
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