Our expectations
I got to the bank last Friday, but it was closed. This really has little or nothing to do with faith but it has made me feel like friday was a complete drag of a day, that popular saying "Thank God it's Friday", it was not for this past Friday. It was one of those days where you know the entire universe wants to make sure you cry before you sleep for some reason.
I find believing everything will work out no matter what a bit odd because you cannot put only belief in writing, you just sit there and pray and hope, but you really just have an unreasonable thought process, it's just the way our brains are.
This confusing state I was in, I knew it'll all go away if I get paid, if not, I planned to walk out of the bank and manage to bang the glass door and maybe get arrested by the security at the door. Of course that's what I was imagining when they kept delaying the cheque verifications. I had no control over what would happen but thankfully everything got sorted out in the end and I was able to leave the bank with the cash I came there for.
The reason I think we can't control anything except our own actions is that we have not been designed to have control over how or when things are going to happen. Mind over matter and the law of attraction may be good concepts but can you defy gravity and save your elf assuming you slipped and fell off of the Burj Khalifa?
I had a piece of dry bread for lunch today and thought about something interesting. Eating a lot does not necessarily fill me up. I did not shake from hunger but from looking forward to having a full stomach later. Our expectations end up being our headaches. But of course we can't live with no expectations of good things happening to or for us.
So long as knowing something is true feels good, that's what matters for me. I'm not saying I'm a person who does believe in hope, hope can help you win difficult battles because it keeps you going but at the fundamental level, it was your actions that won the battle.
Why doesn't it fill you up? Hunger doesn't bother me either, I know my body resists and eventually pounces to its needs.
Headaches are a major concern for me, they just shoot down productivity.
A very much philosopher's mindset, btw 'I don't have any expectations, however it goes.
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Hope is a tool. It can keep us going when we are devastated, when our world is falling apart, when despair is overwhelming, or when pain overshadows everything... Hope has no influence on external circumstances; whether we hope or not, it makes no difference. But it changes our mindset: as long as we hope, we keep fighting. When we let go of hope, we give up.