Disappointment

Disappointment is something everyone experiences many times throughout life. The last time I was disappointed was actually last weekend. My family and I were going to go up to our land in the mountains and snowshoe. I know that you can’t ever count on the weather here in Colorado, but that didn’t stop my imagination. Last time we went snowshoeing, there was snow everywhere. It was like walking in a winter wonderland. So naturally, that is what I had envisioned. However, there was barely any snow. In fact, I didn’t even need to wear a winter coat. The only snow to be seen was found in patches here or there that the sun hadn’t quite reached. So instead of snowshoeing, we hiked around instead.

Pip also feels disappointment when what he had envisioned was not reality. In chapter 21, Pip was disappointed when he reached Bernard’s Inn. He imagined it to be the Blue Boar from his hometown. However, he “found Bernard to be a disembodied spirit, or a fiction, and his inn the dingiest collections of shabby buildings ever squeezed together in a rank corner” (Dickens 101). Clearly, Pip had a nicer looking building in mind, and all he got was dingy, shabby buildings. I know I would be disappointed as well. Pip most likely faced a greater disappointment than I did. It is going to snow again, and then I can snowshoe. However, Pip can’t just hope for the building to magically meet his standards.

Even though disappointment is not a fun thing to experience, it is necessary to grow as a human being. For example, no one particularly enjoys loosing a game. Yet, people set expectations to win. When they loose, it teaches them that life does not always go the way you would like it to. It is impossible to get through life without being let down. Disappointment is just something every human being goes through. However, experiencing disappointment is one thing that anyone can relate to. So maybe, disappointment helps unite us together.