Writing Project

School's almost over ;) This is the last writing essay assignment of the year, and I thought I'd share it with you. It's about disappointments....I wanted it to be about books and movies, but we had to follow the prompts. :)

 

Disappointments can be devastating. They can make people’s moods change from happy to sad in a matter of seconds, and shatter their expectations and hopes like glass. Yet, some good can come out of disappointments. One can learn and grow. Disappointments can have a good side.

If someone is disappointed, they can either be grumpy and irritable or they can try their best to shrug it off and smile. If one is grumpy and irritable, they will make the others around them miserable. But if they try not to let the disappointment affect them, they will soon find that the sadness the disappointment creates in them “wears off” faster than it would have if they had remained angry.

There is a lot of good that can come through disappointments. For example, a young, fictional girl named Samantha went to the toy store with her parents to buy a toy she had wanted. When she got to the store, however, she found that there were no more of the toys that she had saved up for. Samantha was very disappointed, but instead of crying and being angry like she could have been, she smiled, shrugged, and decided that she would wait and be patient. Samantha learned two valuable lessons that day: how to control her disappointment and how to be patient.

Joseph Addison (1672 – 1719), an English writer, agrees: “Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments; but let us have patience and we shall see them in their proper figures.”

Disappointments can hurt and wound people. Yet, wounds heal. Scars and bad memories may form, and it may take time and heartache, but wounds heal. One can learn from the experience, and hopefully recognize that some good can come out of disappointments, if one only looks on the bright side.