All this story starts with a new life in this world. When a child is born the so-called expectations start at that very moment. The whole life of that child is imagined by the parents, relatives, etc. And that's the first point where expectations begin.
As he/she grows slowly, attracted by the leisure of this world and the seed of expectations that was planted at that time of arrival growing now and all the attractions of this world act like manure.
Further, as we grow we become greedy more and more, the more we educated the more we civilized, somehow and somewhere inside us jealously developed. Here jealously doesn't refer to hate only, it can be of love, money, emotions, progress, and many more but one thing is common in all and that is comparison. Most of us always comparing ourselves with others.
After the age of 50 we realized that those 20-40 years phase of our life we spent on achieving that thing which is going to be worthless now. Of course, the name the wealth will remain but does that matter at that time? The answer can be different for everyone, but the reality is that at that age the life cycle brings us again to those state of mind where all those expectations, greediness for ourself diminished. All we want at that time is peace so why we wasted our whole life in achieving all this success, name, fame, etc by knowing the fact that peace lies within ourselves.
The picture above basically shows two persons with a similar state of mind and differ by experience.
One completes that expectations phase of life and one is going to experience that.
Do you trying to say they parents should not expect anything from their child? And I think at some point in life parents realise that expecting too much from children isn't good.
ReplyDeleteNo, I am only trying to say that what happens if their child cannot fulfill their expectations. Maybe it brings pain to them. But without expectations reality would be much more beautiful. Whether it is success or an attempt towards success of their child.
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