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Mitigating Disappointment from Expectation
Finding the balance between over-expecting and expecting less.
When you anticipate something happening, the expectation can be thrilling. It might take the form of butterflies in your stomach, or that feeling like you could simply burst out of your skin, or you just cannot keep still. The expectation of the happening just makes you nervous and giddy and totally uncertain.
When it goes as expected, it’s like the world comes rushing in and the satisfaction is simply exquisite.
When it does NOT go as expected, the disappointment can be soul crushing.
How do you mitigate disappointment from expectations, without expecting less?
Remember to remember
Everybody has experienced this at some point in their life. You were so excited expecting that birthday gift form your parents, or the Christmas or Hanukkah gift from your grandma — and when you opened it, you were like, whaaaaaaaaaaaat? What’s this crap? Where’s my *insert expectation here*?
Then, because you were not a brat (hopefully) and didn’t want your parents/grandma to be disappointed, you were all like, “Thank you, this is great” and had to swallow the disappointment down.
