Expectation

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I expect.  I expect coffee.  I expect it early.  I expect it at 5:45AM.  I expect ‘not so little Dinky’ to bark at that time, my waking time.  I expect ‘Cinn, the little one’, to follow him into the bedroom, and that both begin nudging, licking me to get up.  I expect that freshly-brewed coffee cup transfer from Mickey’s hand to mine.  Most of my mornings begin with this expectation. 

           Audacious, eh?

I expect the car engine to start at the turn of key.  I expect that when I’m on the road, traffic lights precisely work.  I expect that people on the road obey the rules.  I expect to arrive on time and leave on time to and from appointments.  I expect co-workers to efficiently do their jobs as I do mine. I expect air conditioning and heating systems to work and adjust automatically to their setting.  I expect appliances to reliably function.  I expect services I pay for to be delivered. 

Impudent me!

On serious note, do hear me out. 

Expectation, what we think or hope will happen, doesn’t always come served on a platter.  Indeed a fact, a truth.  We befit ourselves of it because we like to think it is a dutiful thought.  We befit it as fact because it serves order a rightful place.  We befit it as an imperative that must be acted upon because we aren’t able to do things on our own. Interdependency is crucial for situations to happen and mesh.  Reliance is critical for fulfilling objectives, whatever they are.  We believe an expectation to be a truth because we want to enjoy the privileges and gifts it brings at our feet.  We feel it to be a given because it makes us all respectably and responsibly interconnected.   

Our expectations couldn’t be far below.  We couldn’t half-expect our labors to be completed.  We set high expectations so that our achievements are reflections of excellence.  We raise high expectations for those who perform below norms.  We meet, and live up to expectations so that we could collectively celebrate their completion.

Expectancy, though posing ying and yang, is an integral nature of our being.  We experience an adrenalin push at the sight of realizing goals and objectives.  We get mixed feelings of anxiety and excitement over an event about to happen. We lament over situations that don’t work as planned.

While we might think sporadically of an expectation as a drawback, what is certain is that an expectation drives us to rise to the occasion of utmost need.  It forces and requires us to be our very best. 

To expect transforms us to do, rather than to simply be!