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.
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It’s really hard to think that everything (EVERYTHING?) you do will be judged. I suppose it’s better to be safe than sorry and think you might NOT be judged. I don’t think it’s possible or particularly “healthy” for you to take on the responsibility for making everyone around you smile. Aren’t some days just sad, or angry? I hope you didn’t mean LITERALLY everybody. That’s a real set up… As Abraham Lincoln wisely said: “You can please all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.”