“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.” Samuel Johnson I’m a dreamer – I readily admit that. My mind is always filled with some grandiose idea or ambition, which rarely (if ever) plays out the way it does in my head. Some might call that an overactive imagination – at this stage in the game I call it the perfect scenario for disappointments. Johnson’s statement above sums it up perfectly: “expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment”. My expectations of life, people and experiences have always been extremely high. The caveat to that logic is when the…