Saturday, May 31, 2008

Expectations...

"Keep your expectations low"; "Hope for the best but be prepared for the worst"; "Don't expect anything from others", these are the few statements we generally hear in our life and every-time I feel cheated or depressed or disappointed then I start thinking about these facts of our life.

These things teach me one more thing & that is "Never feel deserted if something goes wrong & never go overjoyed if something goes right". It makes me advise others that though celebration should be appropriate but should not go beyond a limit & similarly we should not over-criticize ourselves for a failure.
Connecting to this, is our latest visit to the historical city of Washington DC. Actually this trip started with New York & because we had enough time to include an extra place in our tourism plan we chose Washington because of its proximity to New York. As much we liked New York, Washington disappointed us. After seeing New York, we had the similar expectations from Washington too. The life & the crowd, what we had in New York, were found missing in Washington. We did find Washington boring not because it is so but because we expected something which is not its nature. We tried to compare two different kind of cities, we tried to compare Times Square with Jefferson Memorial. We might have found it interesting if we had gone there without any expectation.
So Now I am just thinking, is it just our hopes & expectations which make outcomes of few events bad & disappointing while of other seems to be great?