No Expectations

One thing that I have been continuously learning since the first day of this year is how to live a life with no expectations...

IMPOSSIBLE, most people would say.... I even doubted if I will be able to live a life like that, never expecting anything for every action done and effort exerted.  Expectations make us vulnerable since most of us imply that our lives will solely depend on them.  We expect that with every action, there should be a reaction.  We expect that with every seed we sow, we should reap something out from it.

Expectations are good in a way that we tend to do things better so that the outcome of our deeds are more rewarding.  However, most of us tend to focus more on the expectations and the outcome instead of the intentions why we do our acts.  

Do we do things for the sake of rewards?  Do we help others because we expect them to help us too when the time comes that we will need their help?  

There are some people who have become detached from the mundane things in this world and do selfless acts because they know that they could become better people by making other people's lives better ---- and they never expect anything in return!

So what's the bottom line?

The bottom line actually varies for every person.  I don't know what is the exact bottom line but for me, I have come to realize that in every thing that I do, I should do it wholeheartedly....and never expect anything in return....