Before I begin, I do want to acknowledge the unsubtle plagiarism of the title of this post, but it just encapsulated the feeling perfectly. I woke up yesterday completely on the wrong side of the bed. I could not, as my mother suggested, simply get back in and make sure to get out on the… Continue reading Rivki’s No-Good, Very Bad, Awful Day
We’ve all been there, right? Starting a new job, marking a major life event (marriage, children, making aliyah), or even pursuing a hobby more seriously. We have ideas of how it might go. And then reality steps in and things are, well, different than we thought they might be. While sometimes these unmet expectations can… Continue reading Why Expectations Are The Worst
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that anyone who’s reading this has probably been disappointed at some point in their life. We all experience it. Sometimes it’s the little let-downs like not having milk for your coffee, or missing an opportunity to meet an out-of-town friend. And sometimes it’s the really… Continue reading Dealing with Disappointment
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