Disappointment

Disappointment is a necessary condition of a happy life.

In order to achieve things, you must sometimes climb beyond your comfort zone. In order to have the will to do that, you must expect some chance of a positive result. If you aren’t sometimes failing, that means you’re not climbing far enough out of your comfort zone to do anything important. And that all means that sometimes, inevitably, you will expect something positive but not get it.

The sting is still real though. And when it happens to people you love, it’s worse. You want to tell them that the world is wrong and should have shifted around their expectations, but you know that isn’t true. Growing through the disappointment is just something you have to deal with.

The nature of life creates the conditions for these heartaches. It can’t be any other way – our happiness must grow from struggle.

But I’ll hold your hand, anyway.