"I EXPECTED BETTER FROM HIM"
Recently, an acquaintance complained bitterly of how an age-long close friend of his refused to offer him financial assistance when he knew he badly needed it. "I expected better from him", he kept saying. He went on ranting about how all his close friends were "fair weather friends" who could never be counted on. He failed to realize however that they actually don't owe him anything. Often we get disappointed and begin to rant about certain people we "expected so much from". We then see them as fake friends who have little or no concern for our need. But we fail to realize that we are the ones who keep setting ourselves up for disappointment and possible frustration because we have a ridiculously high sense of entitlement. But the truth is, nobody owes you anything. We are all imperfect human beings with both personal and external challenges and different people react differently to external or "extra" burdens. Some take such burdens as the