Progress is as inevitable as frustration, but understanding frustration and expecting and accepting frustration are important elements in being able to sustain the effort that helps bring about progress.
In thinking about Charlotte, most people I know waver between acceptance and anger, between frustration and understanding.
The strong hand of the Pentagon in relief work, she said, reflected "the continuing lack of confidence the administration has in the United Nations system, and its frustration with understanding the role of humanitarian groups and their principle of impartiality".
This picture represents several things, including hope, frustration, patience, understanding, persistence, faith, gratitude and love.
They also experienced more frustration, not understanding unexpected readings when they monitored their blood glucose.
Mrs. Turner, a Spanish-language interpreter from Beaverton, said she bought a book and video about teaching signs to babies to help eliminate the frustration Riley had in not being able to communicate, as well as Mrs. Turner's own frustration in not understanding her.
At times, they beat me up in frustration for not understanding their commands.
Among the layers of poignancy: adoptive parents remembering the frustration of not understanding when their new family member cried out in Vietnamese for water, and then the happiness of hearing him utter his first English word, "home".
Roberts showed "the right mixture of disappointment, frustration, but also understanding there's a game to be played the next day, and being overly self-absorbed about a loss doesn't really help anybody," Zaidi said.
The diagnosis gave relief, as it brought an end to the feeling of confusion, the frustration of not understanding, and the energy-consuming search for an explanation.
