Today I needed to take my daughter to the orthodontist’s office. I was reluctant because I knew the orthodontist is not nice or friendly, but I needed to talk to him about my daughter’s orthodontics’ progress.
I asked my husband to deal with him, but he was reluctant to talk with the orthodontist due to the same reason that I have.
As I expected, the orthodontist never smiled at me, kept on having a sulky look on his face. I needed to ask him twice nicely not to get mad at me. He replied back to me saying he was not mad.
After we finished our conversation and the orthodontist left our booth, the nurse told me that the orthodontist was not mad; he is always like that. She told me that he seems to be mad, but that is his ordinal face expression. Interestingly, while the nurse was telling me that, we heard the orthodontist’s angry voice to another client in other booth. It was the proof that what the nurse just said was right and it happened at the right timing. We just laughed together.
It was a good lesson that I still expect people to act what I wish them to be, but I should not expect anybody anything. They are all unique and they don’t belong to me. I have to release my expectation and let things go.
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