The art of non-expectation-ism
It is almost a DNA requirement of ours.
Our brain mapping
appears to almost demand it.
We have been
on the “24/7 exercise it” plan
most of our lives.
Glory to the power of the retentive mind
and our support towards it.
Is this truly our method
for how we really learn?
Isn’t retention slyly a method
of reductionism in summary?
Are we, all of a sudden, the life
of common sense
looking for shortcuts in life?
How costly is it to live in summary
of expectations’ resolve?
Does how we frame eventually limit
really only dumbfounded us?
Yes, this is all about expectation.
Language intrinsically does it,
fundamentally as communication,
supposedly yielding an understanding
more than we agree to agree.
Meaning implies specifics to be understood
as if there were no other way
yet expectation seems to go beyond.
When did meeting expectations
become the essential payoff?
Expectations seem to raise the stakes
of worthy experience.
Even if expectations are perfectly met,
what then is the life
of sequential satisfactory conclusions?
What exactly is the payoff
for the efforts of expectations?
When awareness is consumed with the consciousness of expectations, what is the fulcrum on this muddledom? Do inner voices of that want need a muzzling?
Is there some witness beyond the constraints of this as inner dialogue?
Does critical mind ever not work
towards answers as conclusions?
Is this observation situation really a position
of self as self-entitlement?
Is expectation a feeding frenzy
on having self as story?
Are we just depictions along the inner narrative?
Expectation makes us virtual as opposed to real.
We feature a sort of clipboard checklist
though subtly assigned,
and then process accordingly.
So is lower expectations
then a path to our happiness?
Really “expectationism” is its own world
based upon receivership as if life were an order
from the apparent common sense menu.
What are the hidden assumptions
driving expectations?
And when did expectation
become our way of daily life?
Expectation should have been a learned skill set,
at best a back-story to any moment’s bloom.
Wonderment has come and gone as bygone’s do
for the sake of permissions granted
from expectation as the final cause.
Really, there is no now in any expectation model.
The past fires up for the future.
The life of the present is to secure the past
by claiming how the future has to come and go
and the present then negotiates
for the two to meet without incident
as measured by confusion
and or disappointment.
Therefore there is an art to the life
of non-expectation-ism inherent within each
of us, yet fully untapped
unto to that origin and cause.
We all express bad technique in this regard,
but still reside though undeveloped
unto the life lived in the now
practicing the art of non-expectation-ism . . .