your daily rock : no expectations
Sometimes what you expect and what happens don’t match.
That gap causes pain, often. And anxiety.
What if we dropped our expectations long enough to truly live in this moment, fully, without that unconscious measuring of how far we have to go, or how far away we are, or how huge the gap seems.
When I was a kid, my brother and I drove my father crazy when we went on vacations. I always sat behind Daddy in the back seat, and I would lean up and grab the seat behind him, peering over his shoulder, “HOW MANY MORE MILES, DADDY? HOW MANY MORE MILES?”
Of course when either of us asked, no matter how many miles had passed, the answer was always the same: “Just 10 more miles, honey. Just 10 more miles.”
To be fully in the moment is rare; we always want to know where we are on the rungs of the ladder, or on the highway relative to the beach. It is so, so hard to drop that. But I wonder what would happen if we truly could, even for a day.
Pay attention to your thoughts and words today–how often do you find yourself in the past, or in the future, in your expectations and not in your now?
Let go of expectations today. Feel what that’s like. Be fully in the potent “now.”
Love,
(These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.
