Expectation

‘Good morning sir’

‘Straits Times’

‘Good morning sir, welcome onboard!’

‘Straits Times!’

Sounds familiar? It was not a joke as it really happened to me months ago. Hahha….

Some of you may not know, this is one of the jokes at my work. When we greet the passengers come onboard in the plane, the reply from those very focus and task oriented business travelers is ‘Straits Times’. The national newspaper has become their way of greeting in the day.

We may see them as ‘no life’ people, as only the newspaper that they would greet or call. They seek in the surrounding as the finger of their profit margin.

Hahha…. I laughed over it, as it was not a joke at all after so many years that I have heard about. I felt honored that I actually have the chance to witness this reply from a gentleman.

Bizarre!! The feeling was so unreal! The reply was not what I have expected.

Not expected….

Expectation… we are saying…??

When I was young, I had so many beautiful expectations.

I expected I would have a really fun evening on my 18-birthday party at home….turned out to be a self inflicted disaster…

When I was in the collage, I expected I would become someone influential when I grown up… and yet, I am who I am now…

I expected that I could write a wonderful note to share yesterday; yet I was stuck for the whole day.

Expectation is what we hope for a positive outcome from what we have done….

We make effort to cook a nice meal for our family members, expect they would enjoy the food… rather than not coming home for dinner…

Sometimes we buy gift to our love ones and we expect the person would appreciate our effort to get the present…. at least a smile in her face rather than a poker…

A parent may expect the child to be someone influential after taking very good care of him in his education…at least someone has a professional job….

There are many things that we do to gain the joy from pleasing others…. with an expectation in return….

What happen if we do not get what we expected?

What if we do not get anything in return?

If we do everything with an expectation in return, we would not live our life fully and happily… because the things that we do is not what we truly want to do….

Do things that we truly wanted and win the smile from the heart of yourself….whether or not on how much others appreciate is not an issue, the most importantly, you enjoy every moment in life by doing your part of contribution to meet the end needs…

Let go of the expectation…. just do want you enjoy doing…

The gentleman who replied me ‘Straits Times’ have made my day as the joke was eventually came alive. That has kept me to stay alert through out the day.

‘Thank you sir’