Expectations – at least

Go open the door.

There might be someone there.

Go open the door.

There might be a bird. Or a firefly.

Go open the door.

If nothing, there will be at least a breeze.

Or a current of fresh air.

(Hakakian, Roya, 2004: Journey from the Land of No. A Girlhood caught in revolutionary Iran; New York: Crown Publishers: 41)