Disappointments happen. Everyone knows this, except perhaps little children who are not mature enough to realize that everything won’t always go the way they would like. Disappointments seem to be a part of life and are not really a big deal…until they are, until something or someone we counted on fails us. It’s difficult when what used to work doesn’t anymore or when someone important chooses another path.
I'll find another way...
Disappointment will work for us if we will let it. For the hardy person it can be a goad that gets us moving again. For those who will not take “no” for an answer, the signal becomes… I’ll find another way. For those of us who do, perhaps when there is nothing else available but to accept the “no,” we’ll need another response. One could be to remember that disappointments are not a rejection of ourselves, just a “no” to a circumstance. It need not, it should not become a soul wound because this can make it difficult to lift our heads again.
...a resilient reminder...
Don’t we hear a good deal these days about “being who we are?” There is more to this than just a pat phrase that gets tossed off in self descriptions. There is a resilient reminder in us that surfaces in tough spots…if we will let it…the reminder that we have successes behind us as well as disappointments and more of both to come. I recommend we thumb through success memories and let the disappointments recede in becoming a past occurrence rather than a picked-over wound.
Tomorrow really is another day...
To live is to succeed…and to be disappointed. Both our successes and our disappointments do not have to define us. They can tell us something about ourselves as our growing-up process continues and we become more of who we truly are. A disappointment may give us a whack to our egos; it doesn’t have to keep us down. Tomorrow really is another day.
And we could always write a blog about it…
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