About Appointment in Disappointment
One beauty of life is that it is so sweet, and filled with joy and laughter. However, it is also full of disappointments, failures, and challenges that bring pain and tears and so make life taste bitter, look ugly, and filled with regrets and sorrows.
You can trust and believe people to honor agreements you entered with them, or fulfill their promises to you, and they disappoint you. The outcomes of your desires and choices can turn out contrary to your expectations. You can have a dream, set goals to achieve your dream, make plans to achieve those goals, and allocate resources of money, time, energy, and materials but still fail to achieve your goals due to one disappointment or another. These occurrences can be very frustrating and can lead to loss of confidence, distrust, and hopelessness.
But are disappointments entirely unpleasant, ugly, and bad situations that people shouldn’t experience? Is there no good, beauty, and hope in disappointment? Are there no lessons to learn from disappointments that can make a person better?
For some people, the disappointments and challenges they face can easily become setbacks, stumbling blocks, or obstacles to the success they desire. Such people give up easily and complain that life is unfair to them. For other people, the disappointments they experience can become appointments with success. They understand that disappointments aren’t always negative but could also be positive occurrences that clear the way for a rethink, a replan, and positive actions that will eventually lead to the achievement of success.
As negative and unpleasant as it may sound to your ears, disappointment is a disguised steppingstone on the path to success. So long as you desire and work to achieve success, you will meet the stone of disappointment as you tread the path to your dream and goals.
Despite the anxiety and emotional tension it generates, disappointment does not always happen to mar, weaken, break, disempower, stop, or destroy us. If we always look beyond and beneath the surface and look deeper; if we look beyond the negativity, anxiety, and pain disappointment generates, we would be able to find the message it brings with it, the lessons it teaches us, the direction it tends to lead us, and the beauty, meaning, knowledge, wisdom, insight, power, and hope that lie in it, and which it communicates to us.
This small book was part of a big book meant to be published as both a paperback and an ebook but was split into three books. The other two are Prosperity in Adversity also published as an ebook, and The Beauty and Paradox of Failure published as both an ebook and a paperback book.
This small book critically examines disappointment to identify its nature and causes, as well as the impact it has on our health, well-being, business, career, or vocational lives. It teaches how we can discover the beauty, hope, and positive messages inherent in disappointment so that when we experience it, it will not mar or break us, but mold and make us; it will not make us bitter but better; it won’t stop us but start us, and eventually become our steppingstone to appointment, success, prosperity, and victory.
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Author Bio:
JOSEPH UZOMA AKPARAWA developed a strong passion for reading at an early age, and could read just anything that was written in black and white. As a teenager, Joseph never knew a time that he wasn’t reading. Later in his teenage years, he started jotting down notes from the information and inspiration he received from reading. However, those notes got lost.
Upon graduation from High School, Joseph started keeping proper journals and writing manuscripts, although not as a career, but as a hobby. His first unpublished manuscript was a play/drama titled “RAGS TO RICHES”, which he wrote in 1996.
Joseph studied Mechanical Engineering, and is the Managing Director of Engineering Systems Limited, an Oil & Gas Support Services Provider. He is a Christian, Teacher, Team Leader, Motivator, Writer, Critical Thinker, Businessman, and Entrepreneur.
Joseph’s passion for reading helped to shape his thinking and reasoning. He is the author of “PROSPERITY IN ADVERSITY”, and “APPOINTMENT IN DISAPPOINTMENT”. He has also written books on Failure, Success, Purpose, Dream-Making, and Politics that are yet to be published. He is married with four children.