Expectations

whenever i think about the times when i was very very happeee or very very disappointed, i realized it all boils down to one word - EXPECTATIONS.

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last night i was watching tv as usual and my dad came home. he flipped through the mail and fished out a postcard for me! it's a really cute Disneyland hologram postcard from a fren. Wow! i was of course very pleasantly surprised! cos i knew he was going to hongkong but i never expected a postcard! haha! thanks thanks!! thanks for remembering me even when u're having fun! it really made my day!

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it was all planned... i'm finally going to sentosa with my cgmates on wednesday! i was so excited abt it!! i've been wanting to go to sentosa for ages but it either got cancelled, postponed or just never happened due to whatever reasons. it's a potluck picnic and this morning, i went to the market to get some chicken meat to make satays for everyone. MAKE leh... not just buy the ready-made ones. came home and marinated everything... also decided to make some konnyaku jelly and bring too...

when all's done, one of them sms-ed and said he can't make it on wed. so it's gonna be either postponed or we go without him.

NOOO!!! what if not all of us can make it on thurs? is it gonna be cancelled again? *very very disappointed*

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bangkok trip... (i've said enough... so shall not dwell on it anymore. haha!)

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think when good things come outta our expectations, the amount of joy it brings is so much more! if u had expected it to happen and it does happen, u're more likely to brush it aside and say "ok... good lor." but if it doesn't happen, the world comes crashing down (ok la... for certain things, it's not so dramatic.)

but does tt mean we should live life without expectations? does tt mean we'll definitely be happier if we dun expect anything from others or from ourselves? maybe tt's why some ppl would rather live their lives expecting the worst in everything and everybody. so tt as long as things are slightly better than what they expect, they're happier? but i think it's really miserable to live a life of pessimism too leh.

sometimes expectations of situations and of things are necessary cos they pre-empt us for what is gonna happen... like if u expect this to happen, u can make certain preparations and not be flustered when it really happens.

hmm... to expect or not...