It is so easy to get disappointed.. It is so easy to get hurt... Why do we get hurt or disappointed? Is it just because we "expect" people to behave the way we want them to? If we do expect a way in which people must behave why do we say, "There's no one like me"? If someone disappoints us, we immediately think "this person is not worth the time i give.. ","Come on.. I didn't expect you to say that..."... What is this? We do believe no one is like us, but still believe in the fact that people will behave according to our expectations... Fair enough? What do we really want out of ourselves? Why am I so disppointed with life all the time? Keep out the expectations and life always looks good... It's a time consuming process and very difficult to keep up... You would falter, but believe in yourself... Expectations have a lot of tags attached.. Lack of space, Anger, disappointments etc.. We can't see beyond a point... Any negative feeling for that matter helps us in not seeing something concrete... We get hurt and don't let the other person speak at all... Just cause we expect the person to behave according to what we need, not how they actually want to behave... Criticism is always good to your living... People always criticise you... People observe a lot.. People assume a lot.. Only when we give a negative indication to a person will we receive a reaction with assumptions involved or with judgement... We don't realize that, cause we don't want to be proved wrong... EVER!!! We always people to live our way, cause we want to be happy.. Why can't there be a world full of love, caring and sharing and all the empathy that we need...? Why can't we give people what they need and give them our attention and watch what speak and maintain good relations.. ? We say a person is not good, just cause he/she doesn't cater upto our expectations.. :) I do it.. No denial.. but, this is what we're taught since childhood by everyone around us.. We're taught not to go near someone, cause he/she is not good... If we don't like someone, we make it a point to teach others and make them believe that the person is not good.. :) Expectations is one thing we need to get over.. People simply say "I have no regrets", but that's just satisfying yourself, it's just saying I have nothing to do with this... It simply means someone didn't cater upto your expectation, so you just ruin everything setup, and have no regrets... We need to grow, for others to grow... :)