good or bad

India
October 5, 2008 4:26am CST
is it good or bad to expect people around you to understand you and your unexpressed emotions? sometimes i feel it is good but sometimes i feel it is bad. i myself don't know the exact answer of this question. that is why i felt like asking it here. what is your point of view on this topic. expecting from the one's you love is natural. but is it correct to do so?
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6 responses
• United States
5 Oct 08
How can you expect anyone to respond in any way to emotions you haven't expressed? Even if a person tries, unless they can read your mind somehow, chances are they'll be wrong in at least some ways. If you want someone to understand you, Talking things over is a must! Tell them how you feel.
@chengbeb (285)
• Philippines
5 Oct 08
Good question. I guess my point of view is that we shouldn't expect anything at all. Everyone has different views about different people. Like you and me we expect people to understand us and our emotions but in the long run we can't really expect anything. We can't always expect people to understand us because the more we expect the more we get hurt if what we expect isn't what happens. Am I making sense to you. Through the years I've always believed that we can't expect people to understand us because we all have different beliefs...different opinions. What we can only do is to prepare ourselves of what they may think about us. It is natural to expect from the one's we love but we can really never tell. We might think that they'd understand us but they really don't. It's just up to us to have the patience and hope that they understand what we're going through.
@DBabbit (42)
• United States
5 Oct 08
People are not, and have never been mind readers. They don't know when you want to be left alone, when you have a headache, when you're upset, when you feel like you're being ignored, when you need to talk, ect., unless you tell them. Not even those you love know how you feel unless you tell them. :)
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
5 Oct 08
I think that in some things that become repeat offenses it is best to wish atleast that they would understand you and any unexpressed emotions. I think that during times of the week, such as when you feel a headache coming on, or maybe the one day off you get a week, they should be understanding that you just want to take a load off. Now there are times when you yourself should not be so selfish. I am not talking about you, in general, but in general everyone.
@wangkai (797)
• China
5 Oct 08
sometime you can fell good ,then sometime you can feel bad.
• Malaysia
5 Oct 08
For me, it is good to allow people to understand on our emotions. The reason is to prevent any misunderstanding between each parties. We should not expect people to understand us without us to telling them, because they are not our mind and we also can't read their mind. Thus be frank on the communication is the key to ensure both parties get in sync. The result might not as per expected but at least each parties knows on the situation, then there will have chance to improve from there.