expectations are a crazy thing. Take college football for example. If your team has a logo with a history of winning then the only successful outcome of a season is a natty. You can win 8 games and get fired. You have a losing record for a single year and you’re cooked. Went one will turn on you. That’s a function of expectations.
There are expectations in every aspect of life and they exist as a function of a perceptual relationship between two or more parties (I won’t dig into self expectations here). When those parties are not aligned in vision or harken any level of confusion in any aspect of the communication between the two, expectations develop and that word is always nasty.
I perceive symbiosis as a relations between two or more parties where mutual ism is at the core of it. When the goal is to create a result of equally supported needs and desires, you’re good. When it isn’t, expectations form and lead to imbalance.
we live in an era of expectation and imbalance which is not good for anyone. All we ever seem to want is a reassurance of our bubble—our feelings and worldview and if that doesn’t happen then someone needs to suffer and someone else needs to make sure that the bubble is secured. I’m struggling with living in a world like that.
unfortunately, it’s the only one I got.