Of Onions And Expectations.

I was talking tonight at length with my boyfriend, like we frequently do. It seems we can never get what we need to say out in tiny bits, it's always in an exhausting 3 hour conversation. No matter the subject it's all or nothing. Tonight the topic was expectations. I was arguing that if you have no expectations for anything that meant that you may settle for anything. He was going on to say that if you expect too much you will eventually get disappointed. I thought about this and had to agree in certain situations yeah, that can definitely be true. Countless times of disappointment have been experienced by myself many that I know. But if you expect the best can't you get it in return? If you are at McDonald's down the street and you pull up to the drive through and order a burger without onions and they give you a pile of onions what do you do? Well you can A. Freak out on the poor kids at the other end of the drive through, announcing that this is NOT what you ordered, taking the risk of a giant spitball making it's way onto your food. Or B. Reason that McDonald's isn't exactly gourmet food and scrape the onions off later. So, yeah you don't want to get walked on but you also have to reason out your expectations to what your dealing with. On the other side of things not pertaining to direct action but thought itself can make a significant difference in your outcome as well. My previous post was about my Math test coming up. At first my expectations were pretty low. I wasn't thinking very positively because of my past experience with Math. I found however, that as I received more assistance with the problems I was frustrated with, I began to feel better and better. It's like two rice bowls. One is filled with negativity and the other positive. After each correctly executed problem a grain was transferred from the negative the positive dish. As a result of this my score on the test was in the higher range because my expectations were there. I wonder, if positive thinking can sway to such positive results, perhaps our thoughts are more powerful than we initially perceive.