Disappointment comes in many shapes and forms. There is self-disappointment, others disappointing you, and vice versa. 

The one form that boggles me is when someone whom you love and care about disappoints you. It hurts to know someone can just disregard your feelings so easily. Without any care, it seems. 

I do understand both sides of this. I have let down a lot of people, myself included. Whether it was something big or little, it still affects a person. 

I had come to the realization that when someone disappoints us not take it to heart anymore. I don’t let it dwell on me and just move on with my day. Things happen, life happens, maybe the outcome changed because it wasn’t going to be a good time. Was being let down better than it actually happening? 

I feel as though it could be, depending on the situation. For example, meeting up with someone who no one knows you’re meeting up with. Maybe it was the universe’s way of saying that you shouldn’t be doing this, and something better is to come.

Even though being let down is very hurtful and can even change the way you view a person, there is always a way to turn that negative into a positive. 

It’s quite difficult to turn that into a positive since it varies depending on the situation. 

For me, when someone I love disappoints me, it makes me see them differently. Especially when it’s consistent. After so many times of someone you love letting you down, you begin to not believe anything they say. Whatever comes out of their mouth is taken with a grain of salt.

When I let someone down, I can’t help but wonder if they see me any differently. Will they believe me the next time I say something?

Senior Chase Matthews here at Osos said, “Disappointment to me is that feeling that you get when you want something or want something to happen, and it or the person doesn’t follow through.”

I agree with Chase because it’s as if you get this feeling built up inside you, but it all ends up crushed; the happiness you felt inside just disappeared. 

Letting your parents and yourself down is a very emotional thing. It takes such a big toll on the person because the people who are closest to them have been let down. They now view you in a different light. This new light may be a light that gets you treated differently.

Senior Kevion Dominguez said, “To me disappointment is having a standard for something or someone and it not being able to be met.” He and Matthews have similar definitions of what disappointment means to them. I think both of them bring up really good points.  

Whether it is someone who disappoints you or it is yourself that disappoints,  it’s a feeling of incompleteness. You sit there with nothing to do, and you have to just dwell on the moment. 

Junior Johnny Canela said, “Disappointment is not getting what you expected out of a situation.”

Even though it hurts not getting the good out of a situation, you can always look at it from another perspective. Think about it in the sense that something didn’t happen because it wasn’t meant for you. Either you’re meant for something, or even someone better. 

Disappointment is a sad thing, but we can’t let it get in the way of us living our lives. It’s a part of life; it’ll always happen to us, whether we want it to or not.

It may not always seem like it, but things do have a way of working out in the end.