It's hard when you're disappointed. When you, or someone you know, underperforms. When you get very invested into something or someone, and are let down. When you realize that you've been expecting way too much and it's never going to happen. When you thought something was secure and then the slightest quake makes you see that the foundation you believed you were standing on is weak and falling away beneath you. When all the 'try, try agains' leave you with too many tries, no more agains, and no success in sight. When the mountain you were climbing turns out to be a downward-moving escalator and you're back at the beginning.
So, get off.
You can't take back those moments and investments. You can't undo all that effort and care. You can't save something that's not there.
Why should you?
Move on. Some things aren't worth all that worry. Accept the change, the misfortune. And then try again with the next. Those moments and efforts still happened, and they weren't completely for naught. You enjoyed it while it lasted. You learned along the way. It's the journey, not the roadblocks, that matters.
Just don't get stuck focusing back at the top of that downward-moving escalator. Get off, move on. Go find an elevator.
In my opinion.
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain
"Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it." -Eliza Tabor
"Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments — but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken." -Paulo Coelho
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