Easing Expectations - Enhancing Happiness

Every dawn, an old man placed a sugar cube on the windowsill for the butterflies. One day, his granddaughter asked, “Why do you do it if they never come?” . He smiled and replied, “I don’t do it because they will come. I do it in case they do.”  

Then one morning, after many quiet days, the window was full of wings — yellow, blue, and white — flickering like soft light. Neither the old man nor his granddaughter said a word.

They simply watched, smiling, quietly filled with joy. After a while, he gently told her, “See, dear. We did not expect them today, and yet we were always ready.”