August 2019

We can see this quite clearly with traffic on the road. We stop and let some stranger out and they join the traffic flow.  Then later when we need to make a turn onto the road, someone else – another stranger will let us in.  Of course, if we have the ego mind-set and think:  Why should I let him/her in?  Then we know that further down the line no-one will give us an inch or a finger of help when we need some co-operation, no one will give way. 

Expectations are a funny thing!  Isn’t it often the case that things happen that you ’don’t necessarily expect’ to happen?  And don’t things happen that you ‘do expect to happen’, that is that you ‘want’ to happen!  Is it as simple as thinking about something that causes that thing or event to happen?  Can we just ‘will’ something to happen?  Or is there some other mechanism underlying this conundrum?