slowly but surely I learn the truth

Expectations are among one of human's greatest assets and greatest downfalls. We expect and inevitably either receive or are denied. It's the process of expecting that is the greatest. We hope and we wait and we worry and we get nervous and we.... the list goes on. Expecting does things to a human's psyche that I've found very little else compares to it. What would happen if, as humans, we simply stopped expecting. What if we never felt the happiness or sadness from the result of the expectation? I expect certain things to be true in my life. I expect certain things to fail me. I also expect certain things to make me very happy. It's when what I expect doesn't happen that the "problem" exists. I watch Gone With the Wind and inevitably expect Rhett to wrap his arms around Scarlett and whisk her away regardless of what she says. He knows that she loves him and yet, he makes her live with what she says and he lets her go. I've read the novel and watched the movie more than I can count and yet I still expect a different result than what I know will happen. The enduring nature of the human spirit, I guess. We should fight for what we want, I imagine, rather than waiting for what we expect to happen to happen.