thats the essence of buddhism

I have to have the expectation that I'll find enough nourishment to survive, if I don't I'll be more than disappointed.
In hopeless situations, like living in the hopelessness of agrarian Bronze Age Asia, figuring out how to accept your situation is useful, the closest analog would be serving time in prison.
Buddhism and it's predecessor Hinduism are big on meditation and acceptance.
It fits the psychological needs of the people in relationship to their ruling class.
Just as Christianity is obsessed with submission to authority and is the backbone of both the feudal system and it provided the basic morality for western slavery over the last five hundred or so years.
I use acceptance meditation when dealing with things I have NO control of, but there are things I do control and it is my duty to do them with an agenda to improve the world.
You know, do what you can, accept what you can't do anything about.
If all you can do is protest, protest, because protest change things!

How Bless'd is the pessimist for he shall never be disappointed.

Tuesday

Very Zen, but I'm not sure how one can function without some expectations, even if it's that the sun will rise again.