Disappointment is a harsh reality that sets in and forces you to readjust your view of the world and your assessment of the situation. Adjustments are needed and disappointment is the emotion that helps you make the required changes.

We can't let difficulty and disappointment drown us. Perspective is the road that is elevated beside the ditch of disappointment. With perspective we can observe and take good from disappointment. We can also avoid the traps disappointment would have us believe.

This trap is that disappointment is certain and permanent. But it's not permanent.

Where there is no end to love, there is no end to grief, but that unbounded love is reserved for a precious few things in life. Most of what disappointments us doesn’t get our unbounded love, so we should understand that the grief of it will pass quickly.

Despair and blind optimism are opposite one another and we have to walk the road of wisdom between both. It helps to work while you walk that road. Walking and thinking, without working, seems to push us into despair or blind optimism (which only sets you up for more disappointment.)

Try not to linger and fall for the trap that disappointment is permanent.

"Courage isn't having the strength to go on. It is going on when you don't have the strength." –Napolean Bonaparte