By Stanley Collymore

What basically either genuinely or in solid realistic terms is a disappointment; and in actuality haven’t human beings been overly, consistently and erroneously using this terminology very deceptively? I personally think so, and here is my reasoning explicitly in support of my theory. A man or a woman fail most miserably in attracting, much less so attaining the love partner they’d quietly and intensely or alternatively openly and vaingloriously endeavoured to sustain as their own! Is that a d disappointment?

Only if the two persons in question had voluntarily sat down together and both of them openly and honestly discussed the likelihood of their having/sharing a meaningful relationship together and whose mutual conclusion was that they would do precisely that; only for some time later have one of these two partners to purposely and arbitrarily renege on their pledged agreement because they clandestinely met someone else unknowingly to their original suitor and felt that with this new person their own financial and societal prospects will be that much better.

That to me most undoubtedly is not only a quite cynical and vile betrayal by the perpetrator concerned but similarly too, a most vicious disappointment in the true context of that word, hurled at painfully experienced by the victim involved!

Not all such unavailing circumstances, however, are as tragic, callously appalling or actually personally devastating as the evilly and aforementioned one, though realistically there are several that come quite close by comparison while attendant with multiple examples of even worse situations. Pathetically the retail businessman who forthwith disowns his older son because the latter has instead chosen to go to university, get the necessary education which he knows is requisite for the career occupation he earnestly wants to embark upon and not be autocratically obliged, most unwillingly, to commit his entire life to the family business coercively have done.

Similarly coercively accosted in class obsessed and likewise a thoroughly endemically inured and totally in denial of its own innate racism, Britain; a young positively upwardly mobile and most distinctly so a white Caucasian woman resolutely confronts and commendably deals with the vexatious accusations and castigatory condemnations vitriolically levelled at her because she has deeply and likewise reciprocally fallen in love with a likeminded Black Man whom she mutually intends to marry.

“Egregiously contrived and wilfully implemented disappointments!” the personally aggrieved exclaim.

“Most certainly not!” All astute, discerning and non-fatuously bird-brain observers defiantly refrain.

For disappointments entail far more than one’s personal and invariably completely selfish considerations; self-entitled expectations or vainglorious demarcations with all three of these assertions invariably attendant with others distinctly like them, most callously and arrogantly introduced into the equation and without any pertinent relevance to the person who is actually involved and whose life and individual interests are truly what matter!

(C) Stanley V. Collymore
3 April 2023.