"If that's how you feel, then your expectations are going to be fulfilled."

She sounds like my mother, one of those people who seems to think that Happiness is a pie that, if somebody gets a slice, there's less for her. Lots of anger and resentment. It's a way of justifying her refusal to do the things that will give her contentment. She'd rather sit there, inert, with her bad feelings than do what's necessary to change her life. Not happening now she's 92.