I recently cam across a Godman, like all the other Godmen, telling people that the entire problem with their social lives was that they were expecting things out of their society. They say that the social animals that we humans are, should be indifferent to the needs and anticipations of the self and of the society. That is the key to happiness.
I, on the other hand, find it astonishing how they can create such misleading theories. This thought and the preachers of the thought are dividing humanity and hindering mankind's progress.
If you look at a mechanical device, the parts of that machine are related (attached) to one another becuase there is an expectation that each part will do its job right. If one fails in that expectation, the entire machinery breaks down. So, is the solution here that we do not attach the parts together at all?
Failure will cause the machinery to temporarily break down, but if there is no attachment between the parts, there will be no machinery at all. The whole foundation on which every kind of relationship is based upon is expectation; be it social, economic, regional and what not. The human society is of a similar nature, two or more people come together as accomplices, as friends, as relatives, as lovers, because they expect a greater good out of that relationship. If there is no expectation, there is no binding them together. They will work like two independent machines.
A machine runs because it is made of numerous parts working together, the levers expects the screws to hold them together, the screws in turn expect the bolts to hold them steady. This interdependence keeps the machinery running, in the mechanical world and the human world.
A friend expects another friend to be there in the hour of need, to celebrate joy, to share sorrow, to tackle hardships together. We expect our mothers to feed us, our father to direct us, our kins to help us on that path. Every bond is based on an expectation, a husband, a wife, a friend, a lover, a kin, or even an occomplice in a crime. It is this expectation that brings in interdependence and it the interdependence that makes us stronger.
We face challenges in everyday life, which we are quite unsure if we can handle alone, but because we expect the society, that we have built around us, to be there for us, we are sure we can handle bigger challenges everyday.
Rome wasn't built in a day and it wasn't built single-handedly by one man, it was built by multitude of engineeers, architects, masons, stone crushers, and many more unnamed artisans. They depended on each other to complete the marvel that they were constructing. This interdependence is what Rome represented, a society, a glorious example of collective effort.
Shunning out expectation is to shun out that dependance, the strength that unites us, that helps us work as one. It would mean that mankind stall its progress and each man pull the chain of progress in a different direction.
I rather say, expect a lot, expect from everyone but be sure to return back in multiples what you expected, because let us not forget it is a society built on mutual dependence. The bigger the society, the stronger it becomes. Sometimes expectations fail, just like the mechanical parts; but we overcome those failures and continue to grow with stronger bonds. The human machinery does not fall apart.
We are just pieces of a puzzle, one piece alone makes no sense, together we represent a greater entity..
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