It was a dark rainy, cold night. Sitting at the bus stop near Darjeeling, a 28-year-old dejected boy was waiting for the bus to return home. The boy got a new job as a bank officer, but he recognized that this was not what he had set out to do after the first two weeks of his work. Perhaps he was missing Durga Puja in his homeland, or maybe he could have been a better army officer. Suddenly he received a text message from the bus company stating that the bus will be an hour late. "Oh my God , disgusting" ; he said to himself. In the dark, he noticed a ray of light from a distance. " Looks like a tea stall. This is exactly what I need in this cold "; he said to himself. He dashed to the stall with his small suitcase. It was a tiny stall with only two biscuit jars, one chewing gum jar, and a small teapot. He noticed an almost 80-year-old man sitting inside wearing a sweater and scarf with only one arm. The old man offered tea to the boy even before he ...
Expectations, the word itself is a burden, right? How do we stop expecting? This is pragmatically impossible! Believe me, we don’t expect by our will, it’s our nature which forces us to expect from others.We actually live in a world of expectation since inception. Remember, during our childhood, when our parents used to return from the market, we expected a bar of chocolate or a toy? And then eventually one-day when our parent forgets to bring, we used to get hurt by that particular “reality” which we were not expecting! This is the first time maybe when we faced the transformation of reality being different from our expectations. But do we stop expecting from parents after that? The answer is 'No' for most of us. And when surprisingly one-day, we get an expensive toy we dreamt of , it feels like we are on the top of the world because that reality is beyond our expectations. This is a very simple example which I have chosen to explain. Moreover, a s we grow older ...