Tuesday, May 09, 2006

"No Expectations" & Esmond’s Very Own Quote for May

No Expectations
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A dear told me some months back: “Do things without expectations, then you wouldn’t be disappointed when you don’t get reciprocal results.” Well, that seemed pretty amazing coming from her. Deliberated, mulled and surmised that it was true. You see, work = force x distance. So going the distance means one would have to work with force in variable extents. If you put in so much effort in something, you’d naturally expect certain returns. If not, you would not have otherwise humanly done it in the first place. As often as we would instead like it, these results can turn out rather dispiriting. Thus to avoid this dampening gloom, not expecting anything in exchange would be our safest bet!

Stuck with that for awhile but soon realized this objective way of doing things was just not mortally possible! The basic fallacy of this statement is it ignores the fact that we are mere flesh and blood; frail and fragile. Any other way to agree otherwise would devoid us of our creatural roots. We are all selfish to some degree or other. Don’t you agree?

How about unconditional Love? The Love of Jesus to His children? The Love of parents to their offsprings? Are we not capable of unconditional Love? Or does it just not really exist in our mundane and secular world? Are self-sacrifice and fairytales just meant for novels and movies? Yet again, some would beg to disagree. I for one would choose to believe. For even cubs to lions mean the world, what less our Loves to we?

Yes, we are self-seeking but also perishable. So why should the nice things we do for people be? Then you ask me: “Summation be, should we expect?”


Esmond’s Very Own Quote for May:
“Give as you would expect receive. And perchance, you’d be surprised with what you tenfold inherit.” ~ © Esmond Ng 09/05/06

6 Comments:

At 12:01 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

hi es.. juz happened to see ur works on clubsnap. really like the "Changi Boardwalk" piece alot. was juz wondering if i could have it dl-ed cos i thought of putting it as e wallpaper for my lappy. but of cos, if any copyrights or personal reasons is concerned, i fully understands. well.. its really a GOOD JOB! ;)

 
At 1:43 AM, Blogger Esmond said...

Hi Sheer!
Thanks for your kind comments. It's definitely alrite for u to place it on ur laptop! Just right click and save as. Just as long it's not used for resale or any other commercial possible it's fine. :)

 
At 10:21 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

thanks again es.. looking forward to see more work from u in the future. cheers ;)

 
At 5:33 AM, Blogger Esmond said...

btw sheer,
i think the image u saved is pretty low res to blow up on ur desktop. if u wan a higher res one, just gimme an email yah? cheers!

 
At 12:31 AM, Blogger VeraciA Kex said...

without expectation, you wouldnt produce work of standards ne?

 
At 1:49 PM, Blogger  慧灵 said...

"do things without expectation"

means u dun expect the person to return u kindness from them when u do something for them

but not doing things without "expectation = goals"

giving someone a hand when they need help and u dun expect they return u kindness aint the same when u want to achieve something in your life

i think what ur frd means is dun get too high hopes on someone when u helped them as not everyone will reciprocal

give ur whole heart to someone but dun expect kindness from them and thats what No Expectation means

 

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