Disappointment comes to all of us. My dictionary says disappointment is a feeling of sadness that occurs when something doesn’t go as I planned. OK. That’s pretty accurate. Nobody relishes disappointment and, seems to me that by the very nature of the word, it is unexpected.
Years ago, a family member told me that I might as well face an unpleasant fact: I can’t make people behave as I want them to. Unless a person accepts that unpleasant fact, she is apt to go through life like an impatient horse, chaffing at the bit. There oughta be a better way, and there is.
Psychologists say we have two basic reactions to trauma: fight or flight. Verbal fight or personalized flight. Flight could be getting away from the problem, maybe curling up in a ball and taking a nice, long nap. But, I say that we each have to find our own way of dealing with that unpleasant fact of life. So, what do you do?
Whatever your solution, if it works for you, go for it. So much for that dark, dismal, dastardly fact of life called disappointment!
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