Hope is something we create internally and through our desires we project out into to the world – hope depends only on us: our dreams, our goals, and our thoughts. We hope for an outcome, we hope for things to happen, and we hope to feel a certain way when “it” happens. Hope springs eternal and does not need others to be involved in our journey.
Expectations are a completely different thing because by their nature others are intimately (and often unsuspectingly) involved every step of the way. While they are also created internally, expectations are immediately infused with judgment and criticality based on “what would we do.” Expectations are like writing a screenplay for others and chiding those who don’t play their role the way you’ve intended. “Unfulfilled” expectations create detours and unnecessary delays on our road to happiness.
