I'm highly disappointed

[Nirvanadragones]

It's a feeling I am hugely familiar with. Being disappointed is very different from being sad or angry - hence starting a "disappointed" thread.

Enjoy this space to share your disappointments. I hope it lives up to your expectations

 

[TxRad]

It's a feeling I am hugely familiar with. Being disappointed is very different from being sad or angry - hence starting a "disappointed" thread.

Enjoy this space to share your disappointments. I hope it lives up to your expectations

Fair ladies should never be disappointed......

 

[Nirvanadragones]

My turn: You've changed. And I don't like who you are right now.

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

I try to lower my expectations as much as possible. But essentially I'm an optimist, so in general my mood is one of disappointment.

 

[Nirvanadragones]

I try to lower my expectations as much as possible. But essentially I'm an optimist, so in general my mood is one of disappointment.

Where people are concerned, I consider myself a realist. I don't think I have unrealistic expectations. At times I adjust my expectations. I don't have an issue doing that.

But still . . .

*sigh*

 

[Nirvanadragones]

Fair ladies should never be disappointed......

 

[Selena_Kitt]

My turn: I really thought we could work it out, and I hate that the same patterns are repeating themselves. Maybe it's just impossible for some people to be together, I don't know. I can't keep setting myself up to be knocked down, though, it just hurts too much. I feel disappointed in you, and I'm disappointed in me, too. I don' t understand how love and pain can be so close on a continuum.

 

[Alessia Brio]

Where people are concerned, I consider myself a realist. I don't think I have unrealistic expectations. At times I adjust my expectations. I don't have an issue doing that.

But still . . .

*sigh*

I don't like adjusting my expectations. It angers me, because I really don't expect much from people. Myself, yes. Others, no. Just compassion, thoughtfulness, and a smattering of understanding. So, when it's necessary to adjust, I find it quite unpleasant.

I'm an idealist -- but a realistic one.

 

[past_perfect]

Well, I try to expect nothing and enjoy whatever comes my way. This weekend however I broke from that routine and hoped for a little miracle of sorts, that of course did not materialise. Took me a while to appreciate what else I got riding on the back of that disappointment, but it carries me now nevertheless.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I always brace myself for the worst. Sometimes, I am pleasantly surprised. Most of the time, I am left saying "I fucking knew it!"

 

[Guest]

i went to kfc and they got the order wrong again

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Missed the toilet again, damn!

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

My strategy in the direction of those "expect the worst and all your surprises will be pleasant ones" lines, but I try to temper it with a dose of realism.

In accounting, when you know that a cost should appear on the balance sheet but can't nail it down precisely (like depreciation), you don't leave it out, but estimate it. In subsequent balance sheets you make adjustments. Those adjustments have a positive or negative effect on the income statement for the period in which they are made - you don't go back and change previous statements.

In life, I try to estimate expectations in the same way. If I'm way off in an estimate I mostly am disappointed in myself for being so wrong. I don't like that (it's a debit on my "life enjoyment income statement" for the period), and so I tend to overestimate those "cost" estimates in advance. But mostly I try to be a good "manager" and understand my environment as completely and realistically as possible so that expectations are closely aligned with the nature of my enviroment. That is, closely aligned with with human nature, to the greatest extent that I am able to understand generally and apply it to particular individuals.

 

[fieryjen]

Does it count if I'm just disappointed in myself? I don't seem to be able to stop it. I keep screwing up even though I know better, and then I wish I was a better person, but I don't seem to be able to work on it.

 

[Just-Legal]

My Turn: I'm disappointed in myself but I'm also disappointed in you. You made me believe, and then broke it again. Mark is getting fed up of picking up the peices you know.

 

[HeyNonnyNonny]

My strategy in the direction of those "expect the worst and all your surprises will be pleasant ones" lines, but I try to temper it with a dose of realism.

In accounting, when you know that a cost should appear on the balance sheet but can't nail it down precisely (like depreciation), you don't leave it out, but estimate it. In subsequent balance sheets you make adjustments. Those adjustments have a positive or negative effect on the income statement for the period in which they are made - you don't go back and change previous statements.

In life, I try to estimate expectations in the same way. If I'm way off in an estimate I mostly am disappointed in myself for being so wrong. I don't like that (it's a debit on my "life enjoyment income statement" for the period), and so I tend to overestimate those "cost" estimates in advance. But mostly I try to be a good "manager" and understand my environment as completely and realistically as possible so that expectations are closely aligned with the nature of my enviroment. That is, closely aligned with with human nature, to the greatest extent that I am able to understand generally and apply it to particular individuals.

In accounting, as in life, you sometimes have to state what the figures would have been, if only you'd been better informed at the time of writing the figures. That way everybody knows where they stand...

Sort of an emotional IAS 10.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

In accounting, as in life, you sometimes have to state what the figures would have been, if only you'd been better informed at the time of writing the figures. That way everybody knows where they stand...

Sort of an emotional IAS 10.

Oh, very good! IAS 10 (I had to google) is a rule for determining when you do go back and adjust past balance sheets. There are a handful of unusual circumstances, but I think the one most relevent here is this: The discovery of fraud.

Seriously, the "classical" accounting model does not allow going back, and isn't that a good rule for life also? Yeah, if you were deliberately, knowingly manipulated in a premeditated, wilfull manner, you may want to go back and "seek damages." Most of the time it's nowhere near that black-and-white, though, and in these cases going back and rehashing endlessly is not conducive to making the necessary adjustments to the past estimates and moving forward.

 

[neonlyte]

... in the cricket, down under. Whupped again by the Aussies.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

My turn: I'm not enough.

 

[Guest]

I always brace myself for the worst. Sometimes, I am pleasantly surprised. Most of the time, I am left saying "I fucking knew it!"

Wow-that's my philosophy.

Expect the worst. Most of the time, your expectations will be met. When they aren't, you'll be pleasantly surprised. Disappointments are all but eliminated.

I am joking, mostly.

 

[S-Des]

Oh, very good! IAS 10 (I had to google) is a rule for determining when you do go back and adjust past balance sheets. There are a handful of unusual circumstances, but I think the one most relevent here is this: The discovery of fraud.

Seriously, the "classical" accounting model does not allow going back, and isn't that a good rule for life also? Yeah, if you were deliberately, knowingly manipulated in a premeditated, wilfull manner, you may want to go back and "seek damages." Most of the time it's nowhere near that black-and-white, though, and in these cases going back and rehashing endlessly is not conducive to making the necessary adjustments to the past estimates and moving forward.

In life, I try to estimate expectations in the same way. If I'm way off in an estimate I mostly am disappointed in myself for being so wrong. I don't like that (it's a debit on my "life enjoyment income statement" for the period), and so I tend to overestimate those "cost" estimates in advance. But mostly I try to be a good "manager" and understand my environment as completely and realistically as possible so that expectations are closely aligned with the nature of my enviroment. That is, closely aligned with with human nature, to the greatest extent that I am able to understand generally and apply it to particular individuals.

You know, when you talk all sexy like this, you make me disappointed that I was cursed with this male body.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

You know, when you talk all sexy like this, you make me disappointed that I was cursed with this male body.

Hey, big boy, wanna see my bottom line? (Makes that rolling-in-the-back-of-the-throat-with-rising-intonation noise.) Is that a contra-asset account debit in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Wow-that's my philosophy.

Expect the worst. Most of the time, your expectations will be met. When they aren't, you'll be pleasantly surprised. Disappointments are all but eliminated.

I am joking, mostly.

I wasn't.

 

[sophia jane]

I'm highly disappointed that things aren't going to work out for Christmas. I really wanted my dad and step-mom to visit, and the idea of a Christmas without any family is breaking my heart. I'm also disappointed that I believed in someone's concern when it was superficial. Mostly I'm disappointed in myself.

 

[TxRad]

I'm highly disappointed that things aren't going to work out for Christmas. I really wanted my dad and step-mom to visit, and the idea of a Christmas without any family is breaking my heart. I'm also disappointed that I believed in someone's concern when it was superficial. Mostly I'm disappointed in myself.

We believe in you and you have "family" here