What is something you've been expecting all of your life, but has never or will never happen?

Having children never happened for me.

Well, I thought you were gonna just tear my little oss up, but that doesn't seem to be going to happen. :P

I use to dread not being witty , but I think we all know that can never happen..:) 

I waited my whole life, since I was six years old, for my father to contact me.  

I don't expect things to happen that I know never will. That is an exercise in retard.

We have to acknowledge the paradox here

Once we admit something will never or could never happen, we can’t [reasonably] continue to expect it

That said, I have long expected that humankind would free itself from the spell of quaint superstitions. This post was edited by Don Barzini at February 27, 2020 10:10 AM MST

A nude Dolly Pardon Centerfold.

At various points along the way it would have been more than reasonable for one to expect or assume that CHER would eventually grow old and retire.  Hmmm!  That doesn't seem to be happening.  She still makes hit movies.  She still has hit music.  Books, television appearances, tours.  Obviously she is a Fembot designed and programmed to outlast us all.  Long may she reign!

I keep telling myself that someday I will be the picture of a healthy lifestyle but my love for junk food and laziness keeps saying "Not today sir."

That I will figure out what I want to be when I grow up.

When I was a youngster, I always wanted to be a great scientist.  Then I discovered that mathematics were a requirement of even the lowest form of science. I have always struggled with mathematics. Therefore, I studied distributive education, or the art of 'getting the product to the customer.'  

I honestly always expected I'd be rich by my 40s... I have always worked hard, never been a spend-thrift.... I imagined that when my, at the time 2 children were older I'd be off on world cruises and exotic holidays... It never happened...