My Sunday mass priest which I went to at St Cathedral on Sunday preached about "Giving your best and Expecting the worse" That way, you won't feel disappointed in life. The fact that there are people who approach life this way shows that there is some evidence to it.
In life, we may see some people who give the least but expect the best. These are the types of people who often would be disappointed the most. Next, there are people who give their best while expecting the best result as well. This is not wrong in the first place but if things do not work out well in the end, there will be even greater disappointments in the end due to the time and effort they have put in.
By expecting the worst result, you essentially kills off any hope of disappointment. So any slight positive outcome from it will be ...
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As stated by William Shakespeare, “Expectation is the root of all heartache.” I agree with this statement wholeheartedly. In fact, in my book, I have illustrated how to remove pain that is caused by expectation. The following is an excerpt from the book “Wisdom on How to Live Life”.
Tom: Is there any other thing that can cause us pain?
Guru: Expectation.
Tom: What do you mean?
Guru: When we take up a body, life actually promises us nothing.
Tom: What do you mean?
Guru: As an example, when we took up a body, life never promised us how long it would last.
Tom: It didn’t?
Guru: So it may last for 25 years.
Tom: Then?
Guru: We may feel disappointed.
Tom: You mean we shouldn’t feel disappointed?
Guru: Life will last as long as it’ll last. So why should we feel disappointed?
Tom: So why do we feel disappointed?
Guru: Because we’ve been taught to expect life to last around 75 years and when it doesn’t, we feel disappointed.
Tom: Life is short.
Guru: But if we don’t have expectation, then there is no disappointment.
Tom: So disappointment is caused by expectation, and not by actual happening.
Guru: Right, disappointment comes when we compare a happening with some reference point.
Tom: Remove the reference point, then there is no disappointment.
Guru: Exactly, without expectation, we’ll just observe whatever happens is whatever happens.