What do you Expect?

I've been thinking a lot lately about expectations. It was brought up recently during a yoga class. The idea of letting go of expectations and imagining what your life would be like if you didn't have any. If you just accepted each moment for what it is.

I often wonder if I set my expectations for certain situations too high. Since I can't control what happens in most of those situations am I just setting myself up for disappointment and causing unneeded stress?

I logged onto facebook yesterday to see this status:

I'm only a pessimist because I have realistic expectations.

Would that mean an optimist is someone with unrealistic expectations? And does that then mean that having positive expectations is unrealistic? Or is an optimist just someone who reacts positively to a situation regardless of their expectations or of the outcome?

I don't want to walk into a situation with low expectations to prevent disappointment and I'm not even sure it's possible to not have any expectations... is it?

Or maybe its not about getting rid of expectations completely but just being positive overall. Expecting the best but accepting any outcome.

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For some reason this idea of letting go of expectations has really been spinning around in my head.

What are your thoughts?