Expectations

Are expectations good or bad? Even I am confused about this issue. Let us all help each other in finding the answer. We have always heard that excess of everything is bad. According to me, this statement doesn’t always hold true. Working harder and harder yields better results, having a large group of friends is always good and loving your parents to an impossible extent can never be wrong. But having a lot of expectations from another person, be it your family, friends, lover, Isn’t it wrong? Aren’t you doing wrong to him and yourself both? It is true that when you are close to a person, you automatically start expecting. That’s a part of your affection for that person. Even our mother earth requires balance of nature. Science revolves around this fact only that everything should be balanced. And so should be our lives. We need to control our expectations from others not only because it will burden them but they will cause more harm to us than them. If not fulfilled they just leave us with an enormous amount of negativity which just drains out everything good left in us. Expect only that much, which you think is in other person’s comfort level and doesn’t burden him/her. So don’t kill yourself by expecting way too much instead kill your expectations a bit. Don’t work in binary over here, either 0 or 1 ;) work in continuous domain i.e. between 0 and 1.