Getting Let Down and Disappointed

So frequently in life, we get disappointed by those we trust and depend on. We depend on them for love, loyalty, support, compassion, patience, or their help in some way. And sometimes people in our lives just don’t show up in the way we expected and hoped. It’s so easy to get hurt, even broken, and to hold onto anger, grudges, resentment, and longing for someone who, finally, won’t disappoint us.

However, we must realize that every person comes into this world with their own karmic package. Each of our circumstances, situations, even patterns of thought and action are integral parts of our own karmic package. People are not disappointing us, or hurting us because it’s about us! They are doing it because those actions, those choices, those words and decisions are the current manifestation of their karmic journey.

Therefore, rather than focus our attention on someone else’s karmic journey, let us focus it on our own karmic journey! Rather than focus on what someone else did, or didn’t do, is or isn’t choosing, is or isn’t saying, focus on your own karmic package: what are you doing, choosing, saying?

That shift in mindset will bring about a shift from feeling like a victim of someone’s failure to hold up what you thought was their end of a cosmic bargain, and it will shift your focus onto your own life choices. The only thing in life we have ever any control over is, not others’ actions, but our own response and reaction. How can you show up for yourself in your own life? How can you provide the loyalty, love, compassion, and support for yourself and also for others that you are wanting?

A shift in mindset and focus from others’ lacks to our own fullness is the key to shift from disappointment and depression to joy and peace.