Expectations

A family of tortoise went on a picnic. They packed food and set out to a place they had selected behind the hills. When they reached the spot, they unpacked their picnic basket.  They realized they had forgotten to bring salt. Food without salt is tasteless.  They had a conference to decide who should go back and get salt.

After a lot of discussion, the youngest tortoise was chosen, as he was faster than the others. The youngest objected on the ground that before he could come back the others might eat the snacks. But they assured him they would wait for him to come back with salt.

Six months passed, but the youngest tortoise did not turn up.  So the rest of the family decided to open the basket and eat the snacks.
When they opened the snack basket, the little tortoise jumped out of the bushes and screamed,Look,  I knew you would not wait till I came back.  For six months I have been hiding in these bushes to make sure you would not eat without me. Now my suspicion has been confirmed, and I am not going to get the salt.

Some of us are exactly like our suspicious tortoise : we waste our own time waiting for people to live up to our expectations. Instead of doing the right thing ourselves, we wait for others to act in ways we expect them to. We waste our time waiting for others to live according to our expectations

It is really true that expectations are the sources of lot of problems that all the living beings in the world faces.  Everyone expect something from the next person, he can be a person closer or even far away from him, might be related or unrelated or so on.......  But the expectation exists.......

The worst thing is the reaction that living being emits when his/her expectation fails or not in the path as he or she wants it to be.....

Everyone have to think of this and change expectation as an option and make life easier and happiest.....

Live the life...........

6 Notable Quotations

Bell Hooks
"It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self."

William Hughes
"If we are not prepared to think for ourselves, and to make the effort to learn how to do this well, we will always be in danger of becoming slaves to the ideas and values of others due to our own ignorance."

Howard Zinn
"History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history--while it would not absolutely prove the government was lying in a given instance--might make you skeptical, lead you to ask questions, make it more likely that you would find out the truth."

George Carlin
"Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners.  -  They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them."

Bryant McGill
"One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught."

Gotham Buddha
"Doubt everything. Find your own light."