How to Deal With Letdown

Did you recently have an experience in life where you felt as if you failed? Or maybe you did everything on your part however you were let down. Do you feel like you failed yourself, or maybe like life failed you?

Hitting roadblocks and hardships is a natural part of life but knowing this doesn’t stop us from feeling hurt and upset when something unexpected happens to us. We think to ourselves, “How many times have I been here? How many times is life going to kick me down? How many times to I have to put myself out there before I catch a break?”

Life isn’t easy. And I’d be lying if I told you that it always works out in your favor. Sometimes people we love die, sometimes we get fired for no reason at all, sometimes our businesses fail even though we put our heart and soul into them. Sometimes it makes no sense at all! Why even try in this world and put yourself out there if you’re only ever going to get kicked down by life?

I ask myself the same questions when life throws me curveballs, which is quite frequently. Because life can be chaotic and operates beyond our linear understanding mind. And just when you feel as if you figured a couple of things out, “BAM!” You get hit with another curveball. “What the hell life?”

In this article I’m going to share with you how to flow with life even when it appears to be grinding you down, the importance of resiliency in everyday life, and then finally I’ll share with you the most practical mindset that you must adopt if you want to be happy, fulfilled, and independent.

As living human beings, we exist in a current and that current is interconnected to all of life. We are not separate from life but rather we are a part of life. There is an ebb and flow to our lives and if you pay attention to your life over the years you will begin to realize that there are ups and downs. There are low points and high points. Peaks and troughs. This is normal if you are an expanding soul. This is how the universe operates, through contraction and expansion. It’s how things grow. It’s also how things become stronger.

A blacksmith continually burns and cools a piece of metal until he makes a sword that can cut through everything and anything. This is you! And this is your life process. Life will at times kick you in the gut and at then immediately after it will hold out a hand to pull you back up. It seems like a contradiction and sometimes it makes no sense. I find myself giving a few middle fingers to life, god, or the cosmos at times. I also find myself in complete tears moved to the deepest grace at the beauty and mystery of it all.

Life can be a walking contradiction that makes no sense. Embrace the paradox of life and don’t take it too seriously. Attitude is everything.

It would be confusing if your friend punched you in the gut one second and then in the next offered you a hand to get back up. But this what life will do at times. Best not to take it too seriously. Because if you do take it too seriously then when it does this you will find yourself slowly slipping into madness. To prevent this from happening it is vital to practice non attachment to outcome. Now you may ask, “How can you do anything and not be attached to the results? Don’t you do things for a reason.”

This does not mean do things for no reason but rather it means take action but do not be attached to the fruits of your actions. If you make your happiness dependent upon the end result then you are in for a bumpy ride because you will plant seeds in life and not all of those seeds will sprout into trees.

This is simply the nature of life. A farmer drops many seeds yet sometimes the rain is delayed or the sun hides behind the clouds. Some tree may grow while others may never at all.

Expect some things to not workout. Life will always throw you curveballs. It will punch you in the stomach with one hand and then pull you back up with the other. If you’re attached to outcome and involved emotionally to what life is doing naturally then you will drive yourself mad because you will feel as if your being dragged around like a ragdoll.

However, if you can practice non attachment and just see that this is the way life operates and ride the ebbs and flows and accept the paradox then you can maintain your mental and emotional sanity. You can take action, be passionate, and be intensely involved in this world yet remain detached to the outcome. Simply look at everything you do in life as your nature and duty to man, nothing more nothing less. Don’t attach personal want and desire to your action. You do because this it is your nature to do. If your results give fruit they give fruit. If they yield empty holes then they yield empty holes. You cannot control your external life. You can only control your internal reactions.

And if you want to live on this planet joyfully and not be tossed and turned by every ebb and flow then learn non attached action. Take action, be intensely involved, yet do not be attached to the outcome.

Take a lesson from water. Water whenever it comes up across a block simply just flows around. And if it gets trapped then patiently awaits until it flow full force into a new passage without delay. Be this way with life. Always be proactive no matter what and push yourself forward. Yet when you hit a roadblock then do everything in your power to get through without breaking yourself. If nothing works then simply be patient because a solution is on its way.

So in conclusion, be like water, flow with life, practice resiliency, and don’t be attached to the fruits of your actions. Simply act and be a participant in life because you’re here living and breathing and you have no other choice. There is no need to resist life and there is no need to push it forward. Life will push you so there is no need to push yourself.

If you want to stay where you are at then know you cannot. It will drag you. You can either ride on top of the wave of life and enjoy the scenery above water or you can toss and turn in the wave and get tumbled around. It is your choice.

Deepest Blessings and Pranamams to you All!

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