Expectations are the death of us. They make us worry a lot. We waste so many occasions because we expected better and did not consider that the actual outcome could be better than what we awaited. Expectations restrict positivism and appreciation. With that in mind, expectations could be seen as a kind of excess, which we learned is not well viewed by Daoism (Or). Therefore, I genuinely trust in the hypothesis I made yesterday, which is that when Laozi wrote "[t]hose who easily enter into promises always prove unworthy of trust", he suggested that we must lower our expectations (Laozi 191).