Disappointment

It is not the same as being hurt. It is the feeling of dissatisfaction that follows the failure of expectations to manifest. Similar to regret, it differs in that the individual feeling regret focuses primarily on personal choices contributing to a poor outcome, while the individual feeling disappointment focuses on outcome. It is a source of psychological stress.I believe that the worst possible feeling in this world is not the feeling of hurt… but rather the feeling of disappointment.Imagine waiting your entire life for this one thing that would make your life better, only to find out it isn’t really what you thought it would to be. Imagine giving your entire time, heart and soul to something you thought would eventually be yours, only to find out it was meant to be for someone else. When one too many disappointments come into your life, you kind of stop believing that things can go on as planned, and you kind of stop believing that promises are actually made to be fulfilled.

You start to think that you just can’t make anything happen. You start to think that each and every day will be just another disappointment and you start to think that promises, in a sense, are actually just made to be broken.

When you’ve been conditioned that things just never go your way and that what you thought is… will only end up being not, you already kind of expect the worst in any situation. How sad is it to expect the worst in any situation?

The worst part of all of this is realizing that in the end, your life is just one big disappointment. To hurt someone is one thing, to disappoint them is another. It is better to get hurt, because it heals. Time heals and the feeling goes away.

But disappointments? They pile up until you no longer believe in anything anymore.