Expectations

 

They tell me to give up on expectations

My only questions are How and Why

 

Meditate, it will quell your  excited, disturbed mind, they say

Divert your mind.  Take up a hobby.  Engage your mind, they say.

Divert your affections to a pet they say.

Is happiness reached only by looking away? 

Is life a series of looking away only?

And how many times?

As I have said before, there needs to be a parenting manual

But hey, there has always been one, hasn't it, 

A life manual.

The ashramas. Brahmacharya, gruhastha, vanaprastha, sanyasa 

Where the preoccupation with the self and it's extensions,

dull or wipe out the lines of when to disengage,

one can fall back on the texts.

 

I only wish there was a text on the step by step of  HOW TO,

Gradually wean yourself from the longing for the sweet but often unrequited affection of the  offspring.