Dealing With Disappointment
The Halifax Peering Woman Dummy, taken in 2006 Dealing with disappointment in life is never easy. You can look back at life with a twisted sense that life was somehow better back then. People would call them 'the good old days' or 'your best moments in life'. I still do think like that from time to time. It's wrong to focus on the past, to believe that, yes, thinking back to conversations with loved ones long gone, you could some how 'recapture' that feeling once again. I have few good memories from the 1970's - if at all. Things started to really change near the late 1980's after my father passed away in August, 1987. The sad fact was, I feared this man due to his ferocious temper and awful alcohol addiction. I was shocked how quickly it can change people's attitude and behavior. How aggressive and mean it made most people. I never knew a kind drunk; in fact I always thought people descended into awful violent madness and debauchery. Fairly s...
