Disappointment has a bitter taste and just as a smell can evoke vivid memories, so the mind finds it hard not to recall disappointment, and is reluctant to take the chance that we may have to taste it again. It may have been felt long ago even as far away as childhood, but for some it can colour all future decisions.
If early disappointments are used as a blueprint for failure, we programme ourselves to expect failure in all our plans, and doubt can hold back hope and expectation. Every life will have unfulfilled dreams, failures and disappointment. People will let us down, jobs will never materialise and love affairs will end. In a world that is full of doubt and disillusion disappointment is a not unexpected bed fellow.
However expectation is not experience, so whenever life lets us down and all our efforts fail, we are forced to rethink and reboot, to find a new path or a new approach to an old path. Having learned what to do in the worst of circumstance, we become wise, past mistakes are not repeated and lessons are learned, and the success that comes after repeated disappointment is the sweetest taste of all.
“Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys". ElizaTaylor
Title quote by Frederich Von Schiffer