A longtime member says "An expectation is a premeditated resentment." I take this statement to suggest that when I have a resentment I can look at my expecations for a probable source.
Here's an example: I have a borther who is less attentive to being prompt than I am. When I make a plan with him that involves meeting at a certain time, I am cooperating in establishing conditions that encourage me to nurse a resentment. On the other hand, when I make a plan with my brother that is based on no expectations of promptness, I feel no resentment.
Today's ReminderI have the right to choose my own standards of conduct, but I do not have the right to impose those standards on others.
"I have accepted myself and I'm beginning to accept other people the way they are each day. Now I have fewer resentments"
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