{"id":3336,"date":"2019-02-15T02:27:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T02:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=3336"},"modified":"2019-02-15T02:27:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T02:27:42","slug":"expectation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/15\/expectation\/","title":{"rendered":"Expectation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Expectation is the cause of all our sorrows. <br>\n             &#8212; Bhagwad Gita<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it possible to live a life without expecting anything from externals?   An ailing fathers expectation that his son will visit him this Christmas. Mothers hope to see her daughter&#8217;s wedding soon.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why do we let our happiness in hands of another?  Why can&#8217;t we let things guide on its nature? Why do we have to live a life with expectation and when things fail to go our way,  we end up in pain? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Man is a rational Animal.<br>\n           &#8212; Aristotle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am not sure if humans are rational. Aristotle meant philosophers are rational animals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expectation is the cause of all our sorrows. &#8212; Bhagwad Gita Is it possible to live a life without expecting anything from externals? An ailing fathers expectation that his son will visit him this Christmas. Mothers hope to see her daughter&#8217;s wedding soon. Why do we let our happiness in hands of another? Why can&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/15\/expectation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Expectation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[545],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3337,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions\/3337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}