How to Overcome Disappointment?
Non-fulfillment leads to losing faith in everything. So, expect less and live free.
I write whenever I need something to cheer about. Having done several unforgivable mistakes in my past, still, I try to rediscover my potential and happiness in my journey. In our life, situations always go wrong and no matter how hard you try to convince yourself that things will be alright, you bow to disappointment in one way or the other. This has made its point in our lives. We work hard for something we love and we give ourselves completely to achieve our dreams, few people dedicate their whole life to something they can’t earn.
Contentment:
For example, if you work throughout your life in exploring the universe and beyond, as long as you keep uncovering mysteries; new twists and turn to take place in your understanding. New possibilities will be uncovered and your excitement becomes infinite. You started your journey in exploring the universe but you end up in doing nothing but just the laws that can help others to continue where you left off.
The point is if you look at the overall perspective, you ended up doing nothing. This is the disappointment of not accomplishing your goal. As you look into the things that you discovered in your journey you feel proud of laying a basement for your future generation to explore more. You helped exploration become easy by laws that you formed in your journey. This is the contentment in life. You started the journey having a goal that was impossible to achieve but in the end, you are happy for not getting to it as well.
Reason: In the journey, you discovered a lot of amusements that taught you the real meaning of exploration and on the way you have become the reason for others to start to explore more about it.
The universe is vast and it is impossible to explore beyond it in our lifetime of 100 years but we can take one step further in exploring it.
Disappointment comes when we lack in satisfaction. If you end your journey without laying the foundation for your future generation without exploring your goal, your life would be disappointed but now. My point in here is, most of us get disappointed in not reaching the goal of what we wished for but when we start to get satisfaction and appreciate ourselves in these things we do, we never get disappointed.
Contentment is the medicine for the disease called disappointment. In the above example, we discussed our life goals and how we do not feel sad even we don’t achieve our goal. The process is very important than the ultimate goal.
Smartness:
The same things incur for life as well. Life is vast we cannot achieve whatever we can. All 7 billion people on this planet want to be billionaires but very few of them work hard for it. Working hard is not the solution to achieve what you want, the smartness in putting efforts wherever you need takes you to greater heights. “Every hard worker is not a successful person but every smart worker is”.
We must know where to put efforts and where we shouldn’t to stand out among others. People say luck but it is not about luck in this world. Disappointed ones always complain about the ones who are smart and on their culture. Smart people are brilliant, they don’t show any disappointments in their lives coz, they always skid from them. They never stick to it.
Satisfaction or Contentment is the first step to get away from disappointment whereas, smartness is the second.
Love:
Life never gives damn about you when you are broke and disappointed. Even the person you love the most doesn’t help you in the time when you need that person the most. I am not saying that you need to trust and love yourself to get strength and confidence at the time of disappointment. We are humans and we love to go social and we expect people to be around us. Good people to be with us. We like to be in the middle of great people to feel ourselves to be lucky. Similarly, you deserve a person who you love the most to be with you when you need them.
There will be a situation where the person you love the most doesn’t love you. I have been in a position in my life. I was freaked out, alone, shattered, painful, utterly hopeless and strengthless to face anything in my life. There will be a time in everyone’s life like that. Not all of us get what we deserve, we may get less than we deserve and others may get more than what they deserve.
Love is the 3rd ingredient in life where it can get you out of disappointment when treated rightfully. When you start to love the person even after knowing that they don’t love you takes courage and if you are persistent in that, it eventually pays off and makes you proud of the fact and less disappointed about the fact.
Hope:
When life takes you down, we should have the strength to get back up. Listen to what your mind says. I wrote several articles about loving yourself and getting on with every obstacle in life. It is true that to love yourself, you need to be ready to accept failures and harms did by you from your mistakes. When you are sad or got disappointed by anything in life, we humans like to spend our time with the people we care about the most. When they are not available, we feel more disappointed by the fact more than the reason we had to be sad. We miss them and we get angry at them.
Hope is the best way to resolve your sadness when you are hit by life and its struggles. Keep telling yourself, “I can do this, this is not permanent and it will change”. This statement helps you to be in shape.
This may take time but it works. It worked for me!! I hope it will help you as well.
Conclusion:
Contentment, Smartness, and Love are the 3 stronghold strategies to get out of disappointment from life. Whenever you get disappointed with something, be smart about it and work your way through it, get to the level of satisfaction where you feel proud for doing things to get there — but results were unfair — spend time with the person you love and share with them.
Disappointment is the state of remembering feelings you forgot in life. It is the constant reminder of your way back to the best version of yourself through contentment, smartness and love.
