Rather it's the bi-product of living a wholehearted life -- a life in which we allow ourselves to risk feeling the full spectrum of human emotion -- disappointment, heartache, rejection, sadness, inadequacy -- and to embrace our struggles and to accept our ourselves as the fallible "human becomings" that we are.
I see a 2010 of rising protectionism, suspended military dialogue, Iranian discord, human rights disappointments and wars of words.
I must have cried out; a moment later a pair of iron lids seemed to slam against my skull, and the animal went slack, sliding, with a horrible, human sigh of disappointment, to the ground at my feet.
The film is a verbal duel between two gifted performers, with Mr. Beach's psychiatrist representing the uplifting, humanist tradition and Mr. La Salle's enigmatic intruder standing in for the dark side, playing on human pain and disappointment.
But the play's coda, in which Andrea tries to prove to a young boy that an old woman stirring porridge is not a witch, as her giant shadow makes her appear, underscores the play's progress from optimism in human possibility to disappointment.
McFarlane added: "With all that energy, effort, emotion and heartbreak going into that role from everyone involved, I personally think she's entitled to initially show the perfectly natural human reaction of disappointment when she realised The C Word hadn't won".
Like Clarissa, Frances is awed by, and more than a little attracted to, her fantastic friend, who speaks her mind with such free, natural authority and seems to be beyond the range of standard human destinies and disappointments.
At other times, I felt like they were more suggestive of perennial human problems like aging, disappointment, or decay.
He decided not to meet with the Dalai Lama to avoid angering Beijing, to the disappointment of human rights advocates.
