Dissapointments

Prompt: When someone tells you that you have disappointed them, what feelings are stirred up in you? How do you redeem yourself once you have disappointed someone? The feeling of letting someone down is one of the worst feelings to experience. It is not only an emotional experience, but also physical. When I disappoint someone my stomach clenches up, and it feels like I have been hollowed out. In the household I was brought up in, I learned that everything I did would be judged. Falling short of someone’s expectations means that you let them down. Someone was counting on you, and you could not come through for them. I am the person who wants to be there for everyone. The goal I set for myself everyday is to make sure everyone around me is smiling, and when I disappoint someone, I’m not only letting them down, but I let myself down.