Expectations

There are two ways to respond to unmet expectations, and both are bad.  One is alcohol.  The other is resentment.  Alcohol has a way of soothing unmet expectations.  It keeps you from getting the resentment.  But if you don’t drink, then you are left with the resentment.  You expect something and you don’t get what you expect.  Drink or resent.  Both are dead ends.  The only solution that I have found to work without getting tipsy or angry, is a spiritual solution. It results in acceptance.  You accept the way things are at this moment.  You are free of the energy suck of resentment, so that you can use that energy to make some positive responses.  Like what?  You might try and get out of yourself and be helpful to someone else, or some other situation that could use your attention.  Take out the garbage.  Maybe while you are being useful, you might come up with a positive solution to your dilemma if in fact it is a dilemma.  Maybe you will discover it is simply self-centered fear.  I cleaned my room and changed my linens, bedding, cleaned the bathroom.  Resentments left.  Spirituality is not always about saying prayers.