Doesn't Expecting...?

Question

Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected the expected? I'm sure this has been asked a billion times by other people, but not like this... OK,

So if you expect the unexpected, then that makes the unexpected the expected. So doesn't that mean you're expecting the expected, which is redundant, because that is the same thing as expecting something. So people who live in a world where they supposedly "Expect the unexpected", don't they, in fact, live in a world where there is no such thing as the unexpected? I just came up with this a few moments ago. If you still don't get what I'm saying after reading it a couple of times then contact me and I will try my best to explain what I mean via email.

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

It's technically not possible to expect the unexpected. You are right, if you do expect the unexpected, it then becomes the expected and therefore the concept of something being unexpected cannot exist.
However, things do happen beyond expectations nonetheless, which goes to show that if something can be expected, it's not the unexpected and to ask someone to expect the unexpected is to expect someone to know what they don't know. That is impossible.

Answer 2

Kind of like that saying: "hope for the best, but expect the worst."
Or the boy-scouts motto: "Be Prepared!"

I think that we have the imagination to envision the possibilities of what could happen if such and such occurs, and even though you may not know the day or the hour, you can guess that maybe someone will come to visit you. That's why the tea is in the cupboard, and you make cookies every now and then.

Experience teaches us that even after many years have gone by, after a while, the disaster will strike, and the signs are there for those to see them.. For instance, after a winter of hard snows, the floods will be higher than usual in spring, especially if it rains.

Answer 3

You do have a point ... but how do you know what to expect. If you knew what to expect, then I suppose you'd know everything. Nobody would ever be able to surprise you, because you expected it. I think it would be awfully sad to live your life soooo prepared for every unexpected (expected) little thing that you'd miss the "regular" things that happen in your life every day, because you'd always be looking and waiting for the "unexpected" to happen. For instance:

Do you expect that someone unexpected will knock on your door at a certain hour? So, because you expect that they will, you wait at home all day for the unexpected. But somehow, the unexpected never materializes and then you realize, too late, that you've wasted your day expecting the expected.

So I guess my point is, unless you can see every moment in the future, don't go around expecting things. It's much more fun to just live life.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Hmmm. I expected you to say that!

Answer 6

Wow! That's deep. You can e-mail anyway.Bye.

Answer 7

what do the who?

Answer 8

*smiling and nodding, smiling and nodding*