My ten year old granddaughter was so excited. Her parents had finally given in to her begging to have a hamster for a pet. She picked out her favorite at the pet store, helped to select the cage, the bedding and the food. She couldn’t wait to get the little critter set up in her room so she could watch it climb ladders, run in its wheel and munch on its food.
What she and her parents didn’t realize (and neither did I), was that hamsters are nocturnal. They basically spend all day buried under their bedding and only become active at night. The little girl was deeply disappointed after spending hours staring at nothing but the hole in the bedding where the hamster had burrowed in for the day.
Sometimes things just don’t turn out the way we expect them to. Disappointment is inevitable, but it doesn’t have to linger. Shake it off, pick yourself up. Move on. Within a few days my granddaughter had moved on to other interests. Mom and Dad wound up taking care of the hamster. Now THAT was unexpected disappointment.
Amen.