Can I just say...?

Can I just say that there are certain things that I expect out of life for the simple reason that it's the way that I envisioned it?  Everyone does.  And suddenly when there is a "glitch" in our plans it makes us question everything. 

Can I just say that it's kind of funny how we, mortal and finite creatures, try to plan out our lives while we are not even capable of knowing what will happen one tenth of a second before it does?  We have zero foresight and yet we still have expectations.  Humorous, really.

Yet the expectations are very real and very personal.  There are certain things we believe will happen for us because they happen for "everyone else".  We know that it's not true; there are plenty of people in our lives that have had less than perfect circumstances but we still hold onto the hope that we will be spared.  And when something awful does happen, it's such a shock.  It really is.  It's a surprise because once again, we have no foresight, only dreams. *I mean literal foresight.   Plenty of people posses an ability to realize the potentially beneficial outcomes of a situation all while being encompassed in tragedy.

So anyways, here are some of my personal (but common) things I expect.  I am writing this because my eyes are being opened to the possibility of not experiencing these things.  I think it's good to look at what I expect in life and then see where it comes from. 

1. My dad walks me down the aisle at my wedding. 
2. My body has the ability to concieve and give birth to a child (and more than just one if that's what I want).
3. I'm always able to walk, talk, and breathe by myself.

It sounds like kind of a morbid list, but it's just three (of many) concrete expectations I have for life.  I've always assumed that none of them would be compromised, enough so that I hadn't even really thought of them as expectations.  They just were.  And it actually disturbs me at the suggestion that any of those (or any of the others that I have) could be subject to reality.  But it happens all the time.  That's life I guess.

So can I say that it's good to have expectations for life?  Can I also say that it's good to know where your foundation is so that if life isn't exactly as you blueprint-ed it that you'll still be okay?  And that it's okay to be disappointed for awhile?  Oh, and it's good to dream.  As long as I'm rooted in my faith, it's okay for me to have big expecations because, after all, I answer to a big God.  And he has a better plan for everything than I do.  And enter foresight, stage left.