#expectations — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #expectations, aggregated by home.social.
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STUB Stock Tumbles Nearly 13% Overnight: Ticketing Platform Posts Surprise Q2 Loss Despite FIFA World Cup-Linked Surge https://www.rawchili.com/5070767/ #Expectations #FIFAWorldCup2026 #RevenueGrowth #STUB #StubHub #WorldCup #WorldCup2026
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📱🤦♂️ Oh no! #Apple expects the mere mortals who use their apps to—gasp—have opinions! Because clearly, having customers review and rate apps is the pinnacle of hostility. Next, they'll be asking us to breathe while using our devices. 😱💨
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/7/14.html #Feedback #App #Reviews #Customer #Expectations #Tech #Humor #HackerNews #ngated -
📱🤦♂️ Oh no! #Apple expects the mere mortals who use their apps to—gasp—have opinions! Because clearly, having customers review and rate apps is the pinnacle of hostility. Next, they'll be asking us to breathe while using our devices. 😱💨
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/7/14.html #Feedback #App #Reviews #Customer #Expectations #Tech #Humor #HackerNews #ngated -
#YouSeemPrettySadforaGirlSoinLove #OliviaRodrigo #DropDead #TheCure
#StupidSong #TheUnraveledTour #LosAngeles #London
#Honeybee #MaggotsforBrains #MyWay #Purple #What'sWrongwithMe #RobertSmith #Less #Expectations #CigaretteSmoke #Birthday #Present #NeverDo #YouTube https://youtu.be/ahbwOKjbNWE?si=BBGspqhyh1WCxWoN -
#YouSeemPrettySadforaGirlSoinLove #OliviaRodrigo #DropDead #TheCure
#StupidSong #TheUnraveledTour #LosAngeles #London
#Honeybee #MaggotsforBrains #MyWay #Purple #What'sWrongwithMe #RobertSmith #Less #Expectations #CigaretteSmoke #Birthday #Present #NeverDo #YouTube https://youtu.be/ahbwOKjbNWE?si=BBGspqhyh1WCxWoN -
#MissKitty talks about #Mind #Technology.
#Faith begins where #Logic ends. Why would a #Scientist bother with a #Hypothesis if they didn't have some conviction that it was true?
When you walk out the door you have #Expectations but you actually don't know what is going to happen. Do you? -
#MissKitty talks about #Mind #Technology.
#Faith begins where #Logic ends. Why would a #Scientist bother with a #Hypothesis if they didn't have some conviction that it was true?
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“Ab Tak To Jo Bhi Dost Mile, Bewafa Mile”: Why Wafa Is So Rare Among Us
Claude, comment on the line “ab tak to jo bhi dost mile, bewafa mile” from the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I4nSYHL-cQ in the movie Nikaah, the full lyrics here – https://gaana.com/lyrics/dil-ki-yeh-arzoo-thi-6 (I am not saying anyone has been bewafa towards me, and it is more likely that one or two people might actually accuse me of being bewafa towards them or towards life in general, but bewafa people are more common than one would want, so what does that say about us human beings and why we are NOT wafadaar or what prevents us from being wafadaar):
Claude:
What a line to sit with. On its face it’s pure ghazal convention — the aashiq’s résumé of wounds presented to the new beloved — but Hasan Kamal does something subtle in it. Notice that the moment the dilruba arrives, the entire past gets retroactively rewritten: ab tak to jo bhi dost mile, bewafa mile. This is psychologically very sharp. New love doesn’t just illuminate the present; it recolors history. Friends who were perhaps only ordinarily limited, ordinarily busy, ordinarily human, are now reclassified as bewafa because the singer has finally tasted (or anticipates) something that makes everything prior look like counterfeit currency. So part of the answer to your question is hiding in the line itself: bewafai is often a verdict rendered by disappointed expectation rather than a description of betrayal. The accuser’s hopes, not the accused’s promises, are frequently the real contract — and it was a contract only one party signed.
But your deeper question stands: granting that genuine faithlessness is common, why? I’d offer three layers.
The first is almost mechanical: wafa is a promise made by one configuration of desire that attempts to bind all future configurations. But we are not continuous; we are, as you’d put it, a flux of nāma-rūpa wearing a proper name. The man who swore friendship at thirty is only nominally the man at fifty whose circumstances, needs, and attention have all migrated elsewhere. Bewafai is less often malice than impermanence — anitya operating through personality. We promise as if we were permanent, and then anicca collects its tax. The bewafa person rarely experiences himself as betraying anything; he experiences himself as having changed, which feels innocent from the inside and treacherous from the outside.
The second layer is that most human bonds are quietly transactional — need-shaped — and wafa is only tested when it begins to cost something. La Rochefoucauld’s acid observation that gratitude is mostly a lively expectation of future favors applies to friendship too. When the need dissolves, or the cost appears, the bond thins, and we discover that what we called dosti was proximity plus utility plus pleasant feeling. Real wafa requires loving the person rather than the gratification the person supplies — and that’s rare because it requires a degree of self-forgetting most of us can’t sustain. Ghalib, characteristically, put fidelity above even correct religion: wafādārī ba-shart-e-ustuvārī asl-e-īmāñ hai — steadfast faithfulness is the very essence of faith, bury the brahmin in the Kaaba if he died true to his idol-house. He understood that wafa is not about the object; it’s about the integrity of the one who keeps it. Which is exactly why it’s scarce: it’s a discipline of self, not a warmth of feeling.
The third layer touches what you said about yourself — that one or two people might accuse you of bewafai, toward them or toward life. This is the renunciant’s ancient predicament. Fidelity is always fidelity to something, and when a person’s deepest wafa is to truth, or to the Self, it will periodically look like bewafai to persons and to worldly life. Ramana walking out of Madurai at sixteen was, in his mother’s ledger, a spectacular act of bewafai. The world calls it desertion; the tradition calls it vairāgya. The two accounts are not reconcilable at their own level — only at the level where one sees that being wafadaar to the ephemeral at the expense of the real is the deeper betrayal. Though I’d add, honestly, that this framing can also become a convenient shelter, and the accused should occasionally audit whether his fidelity to truth was ever used as an alibi for ordinary avoidance. You’ve invited that kind of scrutiny before, so I’ll leave the question with you rather than answer it for you.
As for the song’s own emotional logic — the fear in lagta hai darr fareb-e-bewafa se kabhi kabhi is the truest moment in it. Having been burnt, the singer doesn’t stop desiring; he desires while flinching. That’s most of humanity’s condition: not bewafa by nature, but so afraid of receiving bewafai that we withhold the very steadfastness we demand, each waiting for the other to be wafadaar first. The scarcity is partly a coordination failure of frightened hearts.
#AdvaitaVedanta #anitya #betrayal #bewafai #Expectations #fidelity #filmSongs #Friendship #Ghalib #Ghazal #HasanKamal #humanNature #Impermanence #Love #Nikaah #RamanaMaharshi #Renunciation #UrduPoetry #Vairagya #wafa -
Keep matters for a time in suspense. Admiration at their novelty heightens the value of your achievements, It is both useless and insipid to play with the cards on the table. If you do not declare yourself immediately, you arouse expectation, especially when the importance of your position makes you the object of general attention. Mix a little mystery with everything, and the very mystery arouses veneration. And when you explain, be not too explicit, just as you do not expose your inmost thoughts in ordinary intercourse. Cautious silence is the holy of holies of worldly wisdom. A resolution declared is never highly thought of; it only leaves room for criticism. And if it happens to fail, you are doubly unfortunate.
Besides you imitate the Divine way when you cause men to wonder and watch.
[Llevar sus cosas con suspensión. La admiración de la novedad es estimación de los aciertos. El jugar a juego descubierto ni es de utilidad ni de gusto. El no declararse luego suspende, y más donde la sublimidad del empleo da objeto a la universal expectación; amaga misterio en todo, y con su misma arcanidad provoca la veneración. Aun en el darse a entender se ha de huir la llaneza, así como ni en el trato se ha de permitir el interior a todos. Es el recatado silencio sagrado de la cordura. La resolución declarada nunca fue estimada; antes se permite a la censura, y si saliere azar, será dos veces infeliz.
Imítese, pues, el proceder divino para hacer estar a la mira y al desvelo.]Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 3 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gracian #baltasargracian #anticipation #discretion #divineplan #divinepurpose #expectations #ineffability #mystery #obscurity #secrecy #silence #suspense #uncertainty
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) Russian politician, Marxist, intellectual, revolutionary [b. Lev Davidovich Bronstein]
Diary, Notebook 2 (1935-05-08) [tr. Zarudnaya (1958)]More about this quote: wist.info/trotsky-leon/16761/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #trotsky #leontrotsky #aging #expectations #growingold #oldage #surprise #gettingold
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) Russian politician, Marxist, intellectual, revolutionary [b. Lev Davidovich Bronstein]
Diary, Notebook 2 (1935-05-08) [tr. Zarudnaya (1958)]More about this quote: wist.info/trotsky-leon/16761/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #trotsky #leontrotsky #aging #expectations #growingold #oldage #surprise #gettingold
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A Look Back at Household Products Stocks’ Q1 Earnings: Central Garden & Pet (NASDAQ:CENT) Vs The Rest Of The Pack https://www.allforgardening.com/1836288/a-look-back-at-household-products-stocks-q1-earnings-central-garden-pet-nasdaqcent-vs-the-rest-of-the-pack/ #CentralGarden&Pet #EarningsResults #EPSEstimates #EssentialProducts #expectations #garden #HouseholdProducts #HouseholdProductsStocks #Quarter #SpectrumBrands
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A Look Back at Household Products Stocks’ Q1 Earnings: Central Garden & Pet (NASDAQ:CENT) Vs The Rest Of The Pack https://www.allforgardening.com/1836288/a-look-back-at-household-products-stocks-q1-earnings-central-garden-pet-nasdaqcent-vs-the-rest-of-the-pack/ #CentralGarden&Pet #EarningsResults #EPSEstimates #EssentialProducts #expectations #garden #HouseholdProducts #HouseholdProductsStocks #Quarter #SpectrumBrands
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A quotation from Wallace Stegner
Order is indeed the dream of man, but chaos, which is only another word for dumb, blind, witless chance, is still the law of nature.
Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) American novelist
Crossing to Safety, ch. 13 (1987)More about this quote: wist.info/stegner-wallace/8452…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #stegner #wallacestegner #chaos #control #dream #expectations #humannature #naturallaw #nature #order
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A quotation from Wallace Stegner
Order is indeed the dream of man, but chaos, which is only another word for dumb, blind, witless chance, is still the law of nature.
Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) American novelist
Crossing to Safety, ch. 13 (1987)More about this quote: wist.info/stegner-wallace/8452…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #stegner #wallacestegner #chaos #control #dream #expectations #humannature #naturallaw #nature #order
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On Taking Care of The Self
It is with a slow dawning that I have come to notice, day after day, the multitude of unspoken assumptions that haunt me like ghosts, ever present yet scarcely acknowledged. They're the soft, invisible mandates that require me to approve of particular narratives, to the quiet adoption of certain scripts that have become, in our present age, almost cultural orthodoxy. Among these scripts, perhaps the most ubiquitous is the well‑intentioned, if not occasionally perfunctory, messaging of […]
https://untilted.weblog.lol/2026/06/on-taking-care-of-the-self#PersonalBlog #Blog #Weblog #MentalHealth #SelfCare #SelfCompassion #SocialMedia #Gratitude #Pressure #Expectations #Mental #Physical #Health #Psychology #Technology #Tech #Adjacent #ThisIsNotAWordPressBlog
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Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures pare losses as CPI report lands, US-Iran truce teeters
US stock futures pared losses on Wednesday after the latest consumer inflation report was in line with expectations,…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #Consumerprices #CPIreport #expectations #federal-reserve #inflationreport #Iran #peacenegotiations #usiran #USstockfutures
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Treasury Wine Estates investor day meets expectations as Americas review flagged
Treasury Wine Estates investor day meets expectations as Americas review flagged Proactive uses images sourced from Shutterstock Treasury Wine Estates Ltd (ASX: TWE) shares rose 9.7% after the compa…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Wine #Citi #expectations #marketexpectations #TreasuryWineEstates
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Treasury Wine Estates investor day meets expectations as Americas review flagged
Treasury Wine Estates investor day meets expectations as Americas review flagged Proactive uses images sourced from Shutterstock Treasury Wine Estates Ltd (ASX: TWE) shares rose 9.7% after the compa…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Wine #Citi #expectations #marketexpectations #TreasuryWineEstates
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Treasury Wine Estates investor day meets expectations as Americas review flagged https://www.diningandcooking.com/2669865/treasury-wine-estates-investor-day-meets-expectations-as-americas-review-flagged/ #Citi #expectations #MarketExpectations #TreasuryWineEstates #Wine
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Treasury Wine Estates investor day meets expectations as Americas review flagged https://www.diningandcooking.com/2669865/treasury-wine-estates-investor-day-meets-expectations-as-americas-review-flagged/ #Citi #expectations #MarketExpectations #TreasuryWineEstates #Wine
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Despite the German national team being viewed by many Danes as favorites for the 2026 World Cup title, expectations remain relatively modest. This conclusion co... https://news.osna.fm/?p=49023 | #news #cup #expectations #glory #reveals
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Why One Partner Goes Silent and the Other One Explodes
https://wp.me/p84YjG-aVw
#communication #conflictresolution #silenttreatment #relationshipadvice #datingadvice #moderndating #fights #expectations #couples #emotionalintelligence #selfawareness #dating #zsoltzsemba -
She's Not High Maintenance. You Just Never Asked What She Needed.
https://wp.me/p84YjG-aVp
#relationships #highmaintenance #relationship #expectations #communication #datingadvice #moderndating #relationshipadvice #pacaran #boundaries #generosity #accountability #dating #zsoltzsemba #pacar -
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Don't miss it 📣 tomorrow our 2-days workshop about #femalemobility between #expectations and #disappointment will start ! Join us in person or via Zoom ⬇️
https://www.dhi-paris.fr/de/termindetails/vor-ort-und-online-umgehen-mit-enttaeuschungen.html
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All over the place – AuDHD edition
As I start writing this, Koa has been living with me for 24 days now. It will be a little more, once this post goes "live". Lately, I have been sharing posts about the joys and struggles of living with a young puppy. The love I feel growing, being proud of this little dude with every new thing he is slowly learning, feeling my brain rest when I see him peacefully sleeping. But also, the worries, the broken sleep, the doubts... Knowing that I know, but being worried that I can't do what I should be doing... The constant fear, being fed by my cPTSD, it's keeping my brain at a certain awareness level, it seems. If course, with a puppy in the house, it' good to have the spider-senses working, as they can be very mischievous, and get themselves in trouble in the blink of an eye. But when you keep doubting yourself, when you are "expecting" results, or when you're just eager to get to the point of those results, and you're pushing too hard... Well, as I have recently shared here, and as I have shared in the past, just with other topics making me feel that way... I feel my brain is all over the place at the moment. And I struggle to deal with that at times. […]https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/05/27/all-over-the-place-audhd-edition/
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Unpacking Q1 Earnings: The Cheesecake Factory (NASDAQ:CAKE) In The Context Of Other Sit-Down Dining Stocks
As the Q1 earnings season wraps, let’s dig into this quarter’s best and worst performers in the …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Dining #BrinkerInternational #cheesecakefactory #earningsresults #expectations #KuraSushi #Q1Earnings #restaurantbrands
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2659286/unpacking-q1-earnings-the-cheesecake-factory-nasdaqcake-in-the-context-of-other-sit-down-dining-stocks/ -
Unpacking Q1 Earnings: The Cheesecake Factory (NASDAQ:CAKE) In The Context Of Other Sit-Down Dining Stocks https://www.diningandcooking.com/2659286/unpacking-q1-earnings-the-cheesecake-factory-nasdaqcake-in-the-context-of-other-sit-down-dining-stocks/ #BrinkerInternational #CheesecakeFactory #dining #EarningsResults #expectations #KuraSushi #Q1Earnings #RestaurantBrands
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#Femalemobility between #expectations and #disappointments – how women managed expectations and coped with disappointments in the context of #mobility from the #EarlyModernPeriod to the #20thcentury will be explored at our conference next week ⬇️
📍28.-29.05.| DHIP & Zoom
https://www.dhi-paris.fr/de/termindetails/vor-ort-und-online-umgehen-mit-enttaeuschungen.html