Disappointment.
Posted: Tuesday, August 18, 2009
by Lorena Bathey
Scepter Press
Disappointment is sad. Disappointment can be earth shattering. Disappointment can change your life. Disappointment can make everything seem bleak. Or disappointment can invoke you to get up off your ass and make some changes in your life.
I was once a woman who apparently had it all. I was married to a man who made a lot of money therefore allowing me to be home with my kids, have a nice car, not have to work, go on nice vacations, and buy things I wanted. Many people would look at me and think, "Wow, she is living the American woman's dream." However, disappointment was a staple of my life.
It was this disappointment that made me tell my husband that I wasn't happy and that something had to change. It was his disappointment that made that change happen by leaving me. It was our mutual disappointment that brought a divorce into our life and allowed us to both find new paths to tread. It was disappointment that opened doors to opportunity for me to find my passion and my bliss.
In this society we spend many millions of dollars on doing everything we can to evade our disappointment. Drugs, alcohol, things, and more are icing over the true fact of the matter and that is we are disappointed with where we are in life. Maybe we're not living our dream from childhood or maybe we are. We might be raising children and wondering where our childhood went. We might be married to people that we loved and married for all the wrong reasons. We might be happy in our love but unhappy in our life. There are many reasons for disappointment and each reason is subjective.
But I challenge you to look at your life and see where disappointment reigns. This is a shining light to show you what part of your life needs to be reworked or at least examined and perhaps tweaked in new ways. Instead of glossing over or self-medicating your disappointment out of your life take the time to see what is at the root of the disappointment and if you can use that to create a real change in your life. Don't go running from the word "change." Change is the healthy outcome of disappointment. Use the dirty word "change" to make your disappointment credible and redefine your life. So while disappointment may be unsettling, think about maybe being settled is exactly the problem. Perhaps being unsettled will allow you to create a life that is filled with new joys and less disappointments.
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