I'm not sure what happened to my posts over the weekend. I wrote them, but only the titles are there. Sad face.
Google tells me that Tom Magliozzi, from NPR's Car Talk, said, "Happiness is reality minus expectations." (Confession: I'm the rare English major/math minor, so I like equations and words.)
I'm thinking about Magliozzi's quote as I look out the window. It was supposed to rain all day. It was supposed to be cold. Those were my expectations.
So a 43 degree overcast Monday wildly exceeds those expectations. I can't wait to go outside and run after school! I can even talk myself into believing that I can see a sliver of sunshine on a day like this.
Does this mean we should negatively seek to set our expectations lower. I want to say no. I want to be hopeful, but I also know the feeling of hoping for a snow day and the pain of waking up to disappointment.
I know the crush of expecting students to love a project and having it fall flat.
I know the disappointment of assigning a cherished text and having it be ignored.
Shoot, for that matter, I know the feeling of writing a blog post that I think folks will really respond to and having the internet goblins delete it.
Do y'all have ideas about how to hold highly positive expectations without feeling diappointed?
Whew. This ended up being a little more negative than I expected. I think I'm going to try to hold LOTS of high expectations and choose to focus on areas that lead to happiness.
Those areas where expectations too far exceed reality will need to be addressed through careful consideration of said expectations. Where was the disconnect? What redress is available?
Google tells me that Tom Magliozzi, from NPR's Car Talk, said, "Happiness is reality minus expectations." (Confession: I'm the rare English major/math minor, so I like equations and words.)
I'm thinking about Magliozzi's quote as I look out the window. It was supposed to rain all day. It was supposed to be cold. Those were my expectations.
So a 43 degree overcast Monday wildly exceeds those expectations. I can't wait to go outside and run after school! I can even talk myself into believing that I can see a sliver of sunshine on a day like this.
Does this mean we should negatively seek to set our expectations lower. I want to say no. I want to be hopeful, but I also know the feeling of hoping for a snow day and the pain of waking up to disappointment.
I know the crush of expecting students to love a project and having it fall flat.
I know the disappointment of assigning a cherished text and having it be ignored.
Shoot, for that matter, I know the feeling of writing a blog post that I think folks will really respond to and having the internet goblins delete it.
Do y'all have ideas about how to hold highly positive expectations without feeling diappointed?
Whew. This ended up being a little more negative than I expected. I think I'm going to try to hold LOTS of high expectations and choose to focus on areas that lead to happiness.
Those areas where expectations too far exceed reality will need to be addressed through careful consideration of said expectations. Where was the disconnect? What redress is available?