Disappointment left unexplored and unresolved can be dangerous. Repeated disappointment can result in depression. What was once a relatively minor challenge can assume extreme proportions.
There are expectations attached to almost everything we say and everything we do. Most people live their life with purpose. When we live with purpose we have every reason to expect to see results.
It’s when those results either fail to manifest or fall well short of reasonable expectation that we are left with a challenge…a challenge that both warrants and demands a response.
The biggest mistake we can make is to look in the other direction. Ignored disappointment does not simply fail to exist. It gathers strength and power from other disappointment both past and present and continues to grow until it becomes toxic. And it gains both weight and strength…enough to become an unwanted and unwelcomed burden.
The most damaging disappointment is disappointment in self. It’s when we fall short of our own standards and expectations that we can become the most confused.
But there will always come a time when we question something we have done or something we have said or something we have failed to do or say.
It’s by standing back and taking a look at our situations and circumstances that we gain greater knowledge of the person we have become.
That, then, should be used as a guide to planning to become the person we want to be and avoiding future disappointment.
Gary Bentley Counselling 