Ups...And Sadly, Downs

I know..its been a while since I've been here so let me just say Happy Easter season to those who acknowledge it and if you don't...hope you had an awesome couple of weeks.

So last time I posted I was missing home...guess what..I still am but not for long yay! Exams begin tomorrow and after that I'm just a bus and plane away from landing in mostly sunny, sometimes rainy Barbados! WHOOHOO!

However, despite my joy this post is about handling disappointments, the post before my last, Time, Time,Time, spoke about the how stressfully filled my time was, running all over the place etc etc. Most of the hard work came from organizing a trip for my classmates to Barbados...I spent all semester trying to organize events and people from here in Jamaica, then running all around Montego Bay, meeting with people and like I said generally stressing myself ( not that I didn't like it, I love being super busy, pushes me to achieve) but what I absolutely can't stand, is wasted time.

So after all of that, the classmates, let me stress that again, THE CLASSMATES AND NOT ME!, did what I never even considered doing...and that is CANCEL THE TRIP.

Sigh, I have never been so disappointed in my life. *moment of silence*

Alas, to this day I am still not clear as to why they did it...but its done.

So how did one handle such a situation of months worth of hard work down the drain...i counted to ten, said a prayer, complained to the persons closest to me and walked away...

Sounds so simple...in fact in my head I invented the dictionary of revolutionary curse words to express what I wanted to say to the class...

Let me back track, the reason I got so upset..I did all the work up to three weeks ago, which means I have been working on it from January, the class started to become involve three weeks ago and then started giving input on things to change etc etc...so basically things where on track....and the tutor was like "Skye you can't do it all yourself" which lead to me taking suggestions and stuff started to go downhill...mainly because plans where in motion then changed.

I'm not saying how I handled my disapointment will work for you, infact, that approach rarely works for me, I usually tell the person they wasted my time..but walking away from it all and complaining about it made it easier to focus on all the other things I had going on... and while I may not like it I will have to work with them again so in the back of my head alienating them did not seem like the best course of action for future contact.

So in short, when you are disappointed asset the situation, wont be easy but try, and handle it in the least harmful way to you first and by extension, the least harmful  way to maintaining the kind of relatioinship you want to have with the person or persons who disappointed you.

And always find some way to vent it out...bottling things inside you makes for a big explosion later in your future.

By the way, how do you handle the big disappointments in your life?

Here's to positive people.