Hope vs Expectation

I read somewhere that if you don’t have any expectations of people, you can’t get emotionally hurt. I am not sure if I am convinced, but I do think that no expectations definitely equals no disappointments.

For a long time I tried to separate hope from expectation in my mind. I believe that hope is a good thing. Hope keeps us going on, it keeps us looking for the good, it gives us something to struggle for, something to hold on to, something to believe in. It’s the reason we pray, we believe, we trust that in spite of almost total devastation, the people of Haiti will recover, will have a new beginning. Hope. We all need it.

Expectation however, is a bit different. It makes us act irrationally sometimes, I think. And when the things that we are expecting to happen don’t, we are not sure what to do, we get tempted to lose hope, we’re disappointed and frustrated.

For me, I try not to have expectations, especially not of people. I read somewhere that if you have something to do, just do it – if you get help, say thanks, and if not, still say thanks because at least you are able to do it – or something like that anyways. I think it changed my entire state of being.

I personally like hope, even if the things I hope for never actually happens, it’s fine, but just being able to hope brings comfort and peace.

Thoughts?

It’s Diabetes Month and other updates

So, November 14th is World Diabetes Day, did you know this? Well now you do! You can learn about diabetes champions or consider making a donation to help people affected by diabetes (btw, I designed the site). And, no, I don’t have diabetes, and thankfully neither do my kids, but having worked at the association for more than a year, I do have friends who are affected by diabetes.

Anyway. Completely unrelated and on the lighter side, I am apparently getting fond of this Jay Sean dude and his songs… his do you remember is also “play-on-repeat” worthy! And if he grows some stubble there, pretty easy on the eyes too… just sayin’.

Ahmm, what else is going on? Whole new blog redesign I think… as soon as I can manage it. I am moving to WordPress, well back to WordPress, for those of you interested… going full circle, as I started off on WordPress, hated it, actually despised it, then, 4 years later, heading back except now I think WordPress totally rawks!!

Ok, so anything you guys want to say? Questions? Concerns? Rant? My blog is your blog…

A quick hey!

So guys, how are you all doing? Me, uh… somehow my “to do” list got to be like a million items long and just doesn’t give up!

I have really pressing things to do, like complete outstanding client projects, to other projects that I do for free but would still like to get done, to things like, oh, I don’t know, teaching rating/shoveling guy how to use video conferencing on skype and then having to answer his video calls so we could test it all out… on sunday morning while I was feeding my kids!! Um, no, it was not inconvenient at all… anyone else wanna test out their video conferencing? I also have a recipe to post for Mezba, actually I have a few, but I am thinking of doing a whole new cooking section (on the “to do” list!) so we’ll see when that becomes a reality.

Anyway. Just wanted to say hey…

What are you guys up to these days?

Insomnia Cures?

Cuz I am in desperate need of some!

And the really sad thing about insomnia is that although you spend most of your time awake, you’re completely unproductive.

Unlucky in socks

I don’t know guys, so I really have to ask, where does the other sock go?