I had a good day, yesterday.  I woke very early and feeling well rested, got up and set about a series of small clearing-up type jobs, which one normally puts off, but make you feel very virtuous once done.  The sun was shining, and I felt we owed it to ourselves to escape the mess and go somewhere nice for lunch.  So we went to a local pub, and sat out in the garden, stream running through it, and had a nice lunch.  My sister mentioned she had a dvd that she hadn’t yet watched and knew nothing about; did we want to pop over and watch it?

Clearly we couldn’t have had less information or expectations about it.  We knew the name of a couple of the actors, that was it, though neither were huge ‘names’.  To cut a long story short, it was fantastic, just perfect for us.  A lovely English movie,  a little akin to “Four weddings & a funeral”, but totally original.  We had to pause it at times to stop laughing!

Had we been given the kind of build up I’m now giving you, perhaps it would have been less special.  So as we drove off, I reflected on the joy of unexpected pleasures like this.  It is true of our relationships, and our experiences.  If we are able to go into them unburdened by expectations, ours or anyone else’s we tend to have a better experience.  I wonder how you deal with this issue, and where perhaps you find that expectations just constantly get in the way.

PS>>  I have deliberately not mentioned the title, so you can enjoy it the way I did, but should you really want to know, I have linked it below.

“Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”  Charlotte Bronte

“Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.”  Edward de Bono

Resources:

1. Here it is