Expectations !

I always say, 'the key to happiness is, NOT to expect from anyone'. But do I actually practice that myself? I think not! Nobody does! Nobody really can! It is something but natural that the moment you develop a relationship with someone, be it friendship, be it love, or even if it is a remote one of 'hello hi' only, an automatic process tends to take place in one's subconscious. This process, I believe, chiefly involves the formulation of a list of expectations that one has from that person, where the length of the list relates directly to the intensity of the relationship.

This leads me to another belief of mine, to which many people might disagree, but yes, I have a strong faith that there is no such thing as ‘unconditional’. Conditions do apply to every single thing in one way or the other, which people fail to notice in some cases. Consider for example the love of a mother for her child, apparently unconditional, but actually she does have some expectations that even she might not be aware of as such-- expectations in the form of outcomes that she would want to declare as the upshots of her efforts some day.

Very similar is the case with the love for God. One expects a chance of getting to meet Him in the hereafter. The materialistic world has no importance for such a person as he expects that the end of this world would actually be the beginning of a new one; a new and ‘better’ one. So even the love for God too has expectations attached to it.

I believe, expectations mar the purity of relations, but then again, how can one not expect? It seems just not possible as expectations play a vital role in the intactness of even the purest of relations.