I Want to Be a Disappointment
My journey to freedom and fulfillment…
Quote from Seth Godin -” Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.”
Glennon Doyle writes brilliantly on this topic in her memoir Untamed, saying…
“Every time you’re given a choice between disappointing someone else and disappointing yourself, your duty is to disappoint that someone else. Your job throughout your entire life is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself.”
The truth is you can’t live a brave life without disappointing some people. The knowledge that you’re disappointing someone can be difficult to process. No one wants to feel as though they’re letting others down.
Something we do will always displease somebody else because we all have our own values, goals, and desires — and we have very little control over how others will perceive us based on these factors.
For those people who get disappointed, it’s really ok. The people who really care for me, the people who are rooting for my rise, will not be disappointed.
The only people who will be disappointed are people who have their own agenda, and their agenda is not aligned with mine.
