Tag: disappointments

“It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is - a sense of loss for something you never had.” - Deb Caletti, The Nature of Jade Optimism and hope sometimes fail us. While the scenarios in our head often seem logical and completely plausible to come to fruition, we frequently forget there are still so many other variables beyond our control – so many factors we just didn’t consider. I currently find myself with such a dilemma. An opportunity I felt confident would lead me down a new path on a new journey, may have been a premature conclusion on my part. Optimism and hope it seems has certainly gotten the better of…

“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…