The expectations we have for other people to act.

Expecting high from people can more often result to disappointment. Even in other things. If you expect things to go out smoothly, you'll be disappointed most of the time. What I tend to do is whenever I'm entitled to expect someone, I always assume partial failure coming from that someone's end. That way, I won't be disappointed and I get to compensate for their fault.

A delicate balance I noticed much, and my experience confirms permanent, that people are of two types: those who give and those who ask. Do not talk about individual acts but that there is a perfectly coherent and in both cases, amazingly balanced. The man who gives he whose existence appears to have received an initial boost from birth, an energy reservoir which continuously consumes, whether it's making fun, of willingness to help someone or an acute sense of duty. The man who asks seems to have been born with a huge goal. He needs something permanent: for one thing, attention, support, admiration, encouragement, consolation. Always has a list of essential purchases, and there is marked out his plans to achieve them. Might imply that the first category are people, and the other are bad people. Completely false. Make sure that people compared with those who ask, are generally seen as more "work", but that does not translate immediately into "goodness" as the eternally dissatisfied not automatically convert the state into "evil . The man who has given him a filled their emptiness. At first he thinks he can fill with his inexhaustible energy. Then he begins to understand that every time they work deepens, the gap is becoming deeper and deeper. And then choose to forget it exists. It takes a great deal of realism to accept that life will end in the red. The man who knows he requires in turn a debt to life. The needs are just a way of standing to ensure that in the unfortunate event that such debt will not be extinguished itself, the effort to achieve them have been paid in advance. It takes a great deal of idealism to believe that you can still profit complete life. In fact between the two categories there is a certain balance, which causes them to constantly seek each other out. People who give need to be asked, as those who demand need someone available to help. But balance is becoming more fragile, because I see around me more and more people who ask. They are the engine of progress and progress and teach others to ask. An avalanche reaction that created the civilization of consumption and consume us all now. Who has one more stopping?

Hi, megamatt. You are right. As I live my life, I expect people to respect me just as I respect them. I expect so many things from people that I feel like they should do. But I have realized the hard way, that they won't do it as I have figured. People have disappointed me greatly. When I am nice and polite to someone, I figure that they are going to be nice and polite back to me. But they may not be. I have learned to stop being surprised at peoples attitudes, because they are not always going to what I do, just because I feel that it is right. I do have high expectations of people when it comes to being thoughtful and compassionate to others. I just don't have a high expectation on how people should live their life or be like I am.