Acharya Prashant explains that expectations arise because something is missing from one's life. There is a gap, and one hopes and expects that this gap will be filled someday. However, one does not know what this gap truly is, nor what would really fill it. As a result, one starts filling that gap with useless things, with things that will not treat the underlying disease. One's real requirement is something else, but one starts expecting a lot of miscellaneous things. The speaker states that one's real disease is something else, but one starts trying a lot of fake treatments. Expecting from others is one of those fake treatments, and these 'others' include sons and daughters. The real problem is an inner sense of being incomplete, a lack of fulfillment, which every human being experiences. Every human being has this deep sense of lack of fulfillment and deserves fulfillment. The speaker presents a scenario with two things: the disease and two kinds of treatments, the real treatment and the false treatment. The person with the disease comes and asks for the false treatment, which is to have their expectations met. If you really love that person, you must decide whether to give them the real treatment or the false treatment. Your parents deserve the real treatment, not the false one. If you love your parents, you must bring the truth closer to them. Love gives the courage to bring the truth. If you really love your parents, you must have the ability and the burning desire to tell them that the false treatments they are trying, like the game of expectations, will not help them. Their real need is something else. This would be the real, energetic action of love. However, this requires a real, clean heart and an intense desire to help the parents. If you don't have that, you will simply give them the fake medicine they ask for. Real love does not just say nice things; it brings the truth forward, even if it hurts egos. The depth of your love for your parents determines whether you give them the real medicine or the false one.