What you come to realize when you start to "grow up", is that when you're old enough to make your own decisions, you have no one to blame but yourself for the disappointments you feel.
It isn't others who disappoint us. It is us who place people higher than we should, and when these people fail to give us whatever fantastical things we have imagined that they would one day give us, we are hurt, angry and upset.
But these people have never promised us these things that we seem to want from them. It is us who projected things onto them.
And so it is unfair to be angry with them.
Which, I guess means that the only logical step to go from here is to try and want less. Try to expect less. And try to spend more time enjoying what we do have. Because without that, we have nothing at all.
It isn't others who disappoint us. It is us who place people higher than we should, and when these people fail to give us whatever fantastical things we have imagined that they would one day give us, we are hurt, angry and upset.
But these people have never promised us these things that we seem to want from them. It is us who projected things onto them.
And so it is unfair to be angry with them.
Which, I guess means that the only logical step to go from here is to try and want less. Try to expect less. And try to spend more time enjoying what we do have. Because without that, we have nothing at all.
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