How, why, do we become disappointed, and why, and, how do our expectations determine our disappointments?
First I start by proposing that expectations can not exist without "of". This means that expectation requires some type of subject or result. These results can be of people, self, or objects & events.
We start by understanding a goal as an expectation. Almost anything that you can think of can be a goal you can think of, expect, and a goal that you can work towards. Thoughts can arise that are possible goals, and not expectations yet. It is not till one commits themselves to some goal/end that there exists an expectation. Thinking of goals, with no certainty invested into their existence, does not disappoint.
We then think of the first version of disappointment to come from:
1) Expectation without action - A) Expectation lost because of self "elimination" (rejection of end), will cause very little disappointment as converse to B) Expectation lost because of "exterior elimination".
Two examples: A) A man has an expectation that he will get the number of a girl he is interested in at the bar. He then dismisses the intention-end, and feels no disappointment. B) The same man voices or expresses his intention (through communication not physical action) and his friend tells him that he knows the girl, and that she is off limits, having a boyfriend already.
When the expectation is given up (when the goal is no longer prominent in foresight) there may be some disappointment. The stronger one's expectation, the more single-minded their predications of their fulfillment of goals, the more disappointment one is going to feel when those ends are no longer achievable or obtainable.
2) Expectation with personal action - Most of the time an expectation is only disappointing as a result of having not only thought of a goal but having acted for it (to have x, to be x). Likewise, as the above form of disappointment, when one eliminates from thought an end even though they have acted they are likely to feel less disappointment. When the goal is eliminated as because of physical events or the events caused by other, with action already invested into them, the more work without actualization of end-goal, the more disappointment is likely.
The maybe expectation and its power to make a person practical and resilient: If we think of the outcomes as probably happening or not happening, we become practical. The more evidence there is that the outcomes will happen or won't happen according to our positive and negative expectations (it will happen, it won't happen), the more we are likely to lean toward or affirming a positive or negative intentional actualization.
Examples of affirmation of positive with evidence of the positive : I am the only one that fulfilled an application for the job in a month, and I am very experienced for it, and I have received the employees admiration, therefore, the probability of me getting the job is positive (will happen).
Example of affirmation of the positive with evidence of the negative: I am one of a hundred people who filled out an application in the last month. I don't have that much experience. The employer didn't really focus on me with much interest in his eye. Upon these three premises of a negative actualization (won't happen) the person says, but "I have faith that I will get this job."
Evidence leads to "expectational certainties", and affirmation despite evidence is "self-affirmed expectational certainty."
In these examples, they are particular, and might not be applied to give sense to one's own relative ends. Many more examples might be written up. The evidence and odds that are added up is either in favor or not in favor of a person, and can determine the positive or negative expectations.
Having both a positive and negative expectation reduces disappointment, and is practical dependent on evidence/information and odds that are in favor of either expectational view.
In these examples, we see that faith causes unrealistic affirmation of ends, setting people up to give up on working towards practical and likely ends. Faith is compensating or a substitute for deduction and natural predication.
Questions derived:
1.) How to expect things with greater certainty?
2.) How knowledge becomes expectation?
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