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The Thread of Disappointment!

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  • mad4drpeppermad4drpepper Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Hope for the best, plan for the worse as the like to say.

    Every day that I wake up and find out that I am still stuck in Iraq is a disappointment.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Aldo wrote: »
    Dunadan019 wrote: »
    im dissapointed that this thread doesnt have any dissapointing story aside from the ops original post. the rest is just people whining.
    I'm disappointed in that you consider my post whining.

    Anyway, I had hoped we would start a discussion about how to cope with disappointment or something.

    Coping with disappointment is really very easy. Lower your expectations. If you expect everything to be awful, being "disappointed" will be an occasion for celebration.

    But you have to be happy at the same time. I know it's possible because that's how I live my life. It's pretty monotonous and its only going to get harder, so I'm quite content right now.

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Our cat was recently diagnosed with hyper-thyroid. We put her on some medication that would help the thyroid not release as much chemicals into her body. All was good for a week, then she started vomiting the medicine up. We stopped the medicine, and she's still vomiting. And the vomit damaged her teeth, so she's not eating.

    So basically, the medication that was supposed to help her may end up killing her. :(

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  • SeolSeol Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    wazilla wrote: »
    2 years ago I helped a friend stop cutting. Last night she sent a text informing me that she had started again... the first line of which was "I have failed you"
    That's a shitty person. Who the fuck does that? I'd drop her like a bad habit.
    That's a person who's probably suffering from a severe relapse of depression making a cry for help. Yes, it's disappointing, but you'd have to be a hella shitty friend to drop someone when they're in that sort of state.

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  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm disappointed in people who spell disappointed 'dissappointed'.

    Also that girl who I met in my sociology class last term and we got on really well, but every time I tried to ask her out she'd be busy, and then after the semester was over she never returned my emails, but she never gave any other indication of not liking me. That was disappointing.

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  • Dunadan019Dunadan019 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm disappointed in people who spell disappointed 'dissappointed'.

    i was disappointed that i couldnt edit my post. i was waiting for someone to point it out though so now i feel better.

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  • DynagripDynagrip Break me a million hearts HoustonRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    my weekend was a bit of a letdown. I was due though.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    My mom just told me that she wants to divorce my dad.

    Y'know, I've been hearing something similar for the last year, and nothing has come of it. Some people just like to run their mouth off about shit.

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  • HearthjawHearthjaw Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I just did the fitness testing for the army reserve, I did fine but the look of disappointment on the poor guys that failed made me feel guilty as hell for doing well.
    I'm gonna with Hellgate: London and Age of Conan for really big disappointments though.

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  • voodoosporkvoodoospork Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Hearthjaw wrote: »
    I just did the fitness testing for the army reserve, I did fine but the look of disappointment on the poor guys that failed made me feel guilty as hell for doing well.
    I'm gonna with Hellgate: London and Age of Conan for really big disappointments though.

    Fucking hell. I was doing so well at forgetting about that atrocity.

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  • Dunadan019Dunadan019 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Hearthjaw wrote: »
    I just did the fitness testing for the army reserve, I did fine but the look of disappointment on the poor guys that failed made me feel guilty as hell for doing well.
    I'm gonna with Hellgate: London and Age of Conan for really big disappointments though.

    Fucking hell. I was doing so well at forgetting about that atrocity.

    what a waste of 50 bucks. never gonna play AoC so i really have no comment

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  • RocketSauceRocketSauce Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm disappointed the zombie apocalypse hasn't come yet and you lot aren't mindlessly wandering the streets looking for brains/flesh.

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  • KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I got two disappointing stories that I'll share.

    The first one involves a friend. For a while now I had been getting the feeling that I was the one putting the most effort into the friendship (ever since she got into a relationship) and was starting to feel as if the only reason she talked to me was because I was trying to keep our conversations going. So I decided to stop making an effort, and hope she would bother to make the effort. Close to three months now and not one word from her. So yeah, pretty disappointing.

    The second one happened friday. I was waiting for the shuttle that takes me to my car from school, and I spotted a girl from my last class. She actually sits like 2 empty seats away from me. I tried to strike up a conversation, and she pretty much just ignores me without being rude about it. Another disappointment.

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  • wazillawazilla Having a late dinner Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Dunadan019 wrote: »
    im dissapointed that this thread doesnt have any dissapointing story aside from the ops original post. the rest is just people whining.

    Well, you know, you could just go die in a fire.

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  • DmanDman Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Wazilla's sig disappoints me.
    :cry:

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  • wazillawazilla Having a late dinner Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Dman wrote: »
    Wazilla's sig disappoints me.
    :cry:

    Have you tried growing a beard?

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  • FellhandFellhand Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I keep running into a lot of disappointment trying to move into a new apartment with my girlfriend that's going to be closer to my new job. There was one that looked and sounded perfect that we were supposed to see Friday, but the person letting it canceled on us and rescheduled the showing for Saturday at 5. She then calls me on Saturday at 11 and tells me she rented it out. So fucking angry over that.

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  • MulysaSemproniusMulysaSempronius but also susie nyRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    When I started working at my current job, I figured I'd be in a safe spot with no hope for movement. Just a job to pay the bills. Then I heard there would be movement in the department- 2 people were retiring. So there was a good chance I could get a promotion, due to nobody else wanting the jobs opening up (I asked around to get an idea. The job wasn't bad- just more paperwork than people wanted to deal with. I wanted it because it was more real chemistry and responsibility, and less hauling around jugs of water.)
    So I applied for the first opening. Nope, a girl who said she didn't want that job, but wanted to use it as a stepping stone for something else got it. Less qualified but more flirty and bubbly.
    Due to other factors, one more person leaves and another opening occurs. They have to re-open the application process, and two more people who swore they hadn't wanted the job, and hadn't applied earlier, applied. Then another person leaves, and two more spots open up. Due to bureaucracy, they fill one spot and have to open up applications for the next two spots that open up.
    The first spot is filled by a lady who isn't me. They come up with bullshit reasons, but the real one was that she was close friends with the guy making the decisions. But! I am told I was the top person they interviewed, I was probably getting one of the other two spots opening up, and they were training me for the promotion.
    Two more people, who hadn't applied before, apply this time. Of course they are the ones who get the promotions. Not due to being qualified, but for very soft "they are better team players, aka we're better friends with them" reasons.


    Yeah, I should have a new job soon. Just have to negotiate my pay.

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  • DetharinDetharin Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    In before todays disaster.

    Seriously though, people are probably the cause of most dissapointments in life. However I find that

    http://images.despair.com/products/demotivators/dysfunction.jpg

    always helps me keep things in perspective.

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  • AlyceInWonderlandAlyceInWonderland Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Henroid wrote: »
    My mom just told me that she wants to divorce my dad.

    Y'know, I've been hearing something similar for the last year, and nothing has come of it. Some people just like to run their mouth off about shit.

    Yeah, after a couple of days of my dad and I being all abloobloobloo, things are better now. I swear to got my mom seriously got on the insane-train to crazy-town. She was blaming not only my dad but ME for her unhappiness, and it was awful.


    But s'all good now. She's still fucking nuts, but actually thinking rationally now.

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  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Yeah, after a couple of days of my dad and I being all abloobloobloo, things are better now. I swear to got my mom seriously got on the insane-train to crazy-town. She was blaming not only my dad but ME for her unhappiness, and it was awful.


    But s'all good now. She's still fucking nuts, but actually thinking rationally now.
    Has she talked to a psychiatrist or psychologist about this? :?

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  • AlyceInWonderlandAlyceInWonderland Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    She freakin' should. She's on medication for OCD, Depression, and anxiety, and she's started a lower dose than what she was on before. i don't know if that could have been a factor, but I haven't been that miserable and upset...ever.

    It seems like she was completely unsympathetic, cold and uncaring. While my dad and I were sobbing, she just sat there and either laughed, or sat silently completely unmoved. It was so fucking weird. She didn't shed a tear.
    Her reasons for wanting a divorce were: She felt invisible, the house was a mess, and my dad's 'bad temper' frightened her and made her think of her boyfriend in HS that beat the shit out of her (my dad getting angry is him cursing a bit, then getting up to go somewhere else to calm down. Not once has he said anything mean towards my mom, nor has he ever laid a mean hand on her. he's actually very calm and easy going).
    My dad, even though he did nothing wrong, started sobbing and was telling her he can change, and she flat out said she didn't believe him (because her boyfriend in HS that beat her said the same thing...), and that she didn't love him any more. She also told him that he frightens ME when he gets angry. I was never once afraid of my dad, so she was trying to attack him and use things that I haven't even thought, against him, which is just fucking awful.
    Then she turned to me and told me the house was a shit hole, and that I'm lazy and never do anything (I work and go to college full time.....).

    Well, now apparently she loves him again, and decided last night to 'give him a second chance'


    I seriously think she should go to a psychiatrist. Either that, or I should. Because honestly, this is getting very hard for me to handle. I thank God every day that I'm more like my father. It's going to be hard to forgive my mom after this shit.

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  • GammarahGammarah Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm disappointed because this girl I just went out with, made out with me and then two hours later told me that we were just friends.

    I am the worst kisser EVER.

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