Sooo, Cosmic Reader, how do you handle disappointment? Stoically? With anger? Lash out at others whether or not they are involved? ‘Bravely’? Throw in the towel? Use as an impetus to try again?
Obviously that is far from an exhaustive list of responses to ‘disappointment’. Remember though, never equate failure with disappointment, unless you let it incapacitate you. Actually the question is more of – how do you view disappointment? What do you ‘do‘ with it?
We all have pity parties. I know I do. I think it is probably inevitable that with a disappointment we all ‘feel’ badly. But the key is to not stay in the wallowing. Once emerging from the feeling, do we assess the reason(s)? Did we do something we ‘shouldn’t’ have? Or, not done something we should have? Was it out of our hands to begin with? And the big question – what can/should we do now?
Actually, options abound as long as we consider the alternative(s) – they probably were always there.
