So one day I’m driving and the traffic was horrendous and I swear the taxi drivers were out to get me. Where did some of them learn to drive? You know I was livid. I was on the phone with someone and they said to me lower your expectations. I was perplexed. Why would I want to do that I asked and he said to me to paraphrase, so you wouldn’t have lofty expectations of others. He said if you lower the expectations then they won’t be so high that persons can’t reach them, especially taxi drivers. I remember him saying to me the moment you lower your expectations you will be happier. I had to stop and think about this. Would I be selling myself short by lower my expectations of others. Actually maybe not. Not everyone can reach the heights that you might have placed your standards. Think about it we can’t control the behaviors of others, so why do we expect them to be able to live up to the standards that we might have for ourselves and them. Our standards aren’t theirs and in all probability will never be.
I had never thought of me expecting so much of others would make me unhappy. Ave you ever thought about that? I think it is that they make you upset and thus you feel so lost in terms of power. It is simply you have no control. I’m sure you like many others feel at sea when our perceived control is gone. I say perceived because very often we really don’t have the control of others that we think we do.
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