Acharya Prashant explains that people often make an ordinary person the center of their universe and then raise expectations from them. He questions whether that person is, first of all, capable and worthy of fulfilling those expectations. He states that obviously, they are not; they are just a general, average human being who will do what all average human beings do. When their acts and transgressions come to light, one puts on a sorry face, feeling their trust has not been honored. Using a metaphor, the speaker says this is like trusting an elephant to fly. While you are looking upwards, expecting it to fly, it gives you five kilograms of elephant dung instead. The fault is not with the elephant, but with the one who expects it to fly. What's worse, he explains, is that there is something within you that is still pulled towards the elephant, secretly hoping it will fly. He advises blaming that part within you which gets attracted to all kinds of animals. Whenever you are cheated in love, you should not blame anyone else but ask yourself if you had anything better to do with your life than to cling to a person. The speaker addresses the questioner's experience of dedicating eight golden years of their youth to a "general moron" who was having affairs all over the city. He asserts that this is the way of the common man, the general human being, who is not worthy of being devoted to. He attributes this attachment to reasons like loneliness, hormonal urges, cultural predisposition, peer pressure, and movies. He states that most people are just unworthy. Therefore, it is always better and safer not to spend your life on persons, but to invest your time in a cause. The cause could be your own development or social welfare, but it should be a cause, not a person, that occupies you fully. Hurt comes from broken expectations, which arise because you have not internally achieved what you should have for yourself. The responsibility to bring goodness to your life rests primarily upon you, not somebody else. As an adult, it is your own responsibility to fill your life with beauty, wellness, and goodness. If you are not doing it, you cannot expect someone else to do it for you.