Chagrin: (n) distress or embarrassment at having failed or been humiliated.
Life waits around, waiting for human beings to express disappointment so it can squash them like that bug you found in your tent during the
campout.
Even though we contend that a certain amount of disappointment, embarrassment, disgust or sadness is predictable for certain occasions, those who indulge themselves in such a luxury often find that they are left out of the next flow of human activity.
You can be disappointed, but no one really cares.
It’s not because they’re uncaring–it’s because deep in their hearts, each one of us knows that disappointment and embarrassment are useless emotions which must be dispelled as quickly as possible, lest they explode and destroy our will to live.
So when we see this in other people, there is a small part of us that wants to be sympathetic and a huge part that wants to run away in terror.
So beware of the instinct to share your heart if that emotional revelation is filled with chagrin–because even though we all suffer slings and arrows, most of us have learned the wisdom of ducking.
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