Not So Great Expectations!

Please don’t get misguided, this is not a sequel to the most sophisticated written novels by Charles Dickens but I am trying to figure out the rise of word EXPECT. It was never in my mind to write something, as a matter of fact anything related to the word EXPECT until recently. Since couple of days I am suffering from common cold and had symptoms of RTI, these days you will find every other person infested and exercising the RTI (Right to Information) but that’s not what I am referring to.

I had the other RTI (Respiratory Track Infection) and on the medicine bottle it mentioned a brand name as an expectorant. That’s when I thought of typing out my phlegm, I mean thoughts with regards to the word EXPECT. Dictionary meaning of the word expectorant is “promoting the discharge of phlegm or other fluid from the respiratory tract” but for me word EXPECT means uncertainty.

When we EXPECT we are not 100% sure and in today’s world everyone is doing nothing but expecting. In a developed country like ours, parents expect they should have a boy child over a girl child as more is expected out that unexpected outcome which is yet to be born – no wonder they are called as expected parents.

In today’s uncertain times, government expects the changed investment policies and similar strategies can act as an expectorant to revive economy. But we all forget or may be we don’t want to say it out loud, with or without medicines common cold stays for 7 days maybe same applies to this recession period.

Our country’s newly found love is moral policing, these gentlemen presume that they are the ultimate guardian of humanity and expect today’s open minded generation to be more disciplined and culturally aware which is not wrong but that doesn’t give them the RTI (Right To Insult), beat up or humiliate anyone. Hey speaking of newly found love shouldn’t we expect them to celebrate Valentine day.

Let’s do some expectation exercise at a global level - sometimes I astonish myself by reading newspaper. Recently, I read UCLA researchers scored over CIA and spy planes by projecting hideout location of Osama and it is expected that he would be in that area. Only if the word expect isn’t exercised that often the world would have been a better place, note this is just an expectation.

Leave alone humans, even god exercises the E word and we find it written in all the holy books. As human we are expected to do laundry list of things and follow the path of righteousness. Some times I feel, only if he (the One) hadn’t exercised, the EXPECT condition - never would have arose the need to develop an EXPECTORANT.

Oops it’s about time to take my expectorant…