Great Expectations
It is known to us all that life is changeable. At one moment, you are so happy and so eager to try something or achieve something. While on another moment, life has just played a little trick on you, and what you have always supposed to achieve may suddenly be so far beyond. In fact, we are often taught by our wise teachers and some philosophy books that the result of a certain thing is not important at all. What we should pay attention to is the course when we go through the whole thing.
During one period of time, I was so afraid of being disappointed that I prevent myself from dreaming great expectations, trying to focus on the course while ignoring what I would like to achieve. It did work to comfort me when I failed certain competitions, for I didn’t expect so much at the first place. And I didn’t have to suffer from the feelings such as falling into the hell from the paradise in one minute, because I never imagined I would be in the paradise.
However, later I know that I have misunderstood what my teachers said. They said to pay little attention to the result, but they didn’t mean that I should do things without a goal. And looking back at my attitude in that period, I feel so regret. The times that I feel disappointed have decreased, but the times that I succeed have also decreased. Without great expectation, I was competing without a goal. As a result, I became lack of the motivation to pursue a better and stronger self, just maintaining who I was and making no attempt to go further.
And if I have great expectations, I will be possessed with the determination to make a change. For example, if I expect to be more beautiful, I will make my mind to save money so that I can buy the fashionable Tiffany silver jewelry necklace, which can make me more attractive. While if I don’t have the expectation, I will just stay being common, and pay little attention to the way I appear.
So it is really important to have great expectations on ourselves and also on our lives. And that is the essential thing with which we can arouse our motivation and compete for a better situation and a better life.