Does anything ever really work out the way you hoped it would? It has occured to me, repeatedly, that reality almost always falls short of expectations. To an extent, this can be forgiven; when we expect things, we usually have an idealized scenario in mind. Such scenarios are unlikely to happen, and would be impractical to MAKE happen. And yet, even simple things seem to fall short.
I was expecting to have New Year's Eve off. Instead, I had to work. I was expecting that, should there be a change to the schedule that night, that someone would inform me. I only found out that there had been such a change more than an hour after the fact, and after my co-workers had already left. Needless to say, my New Year's Eve was NOT a good one.
We have such high hopes for things. Alas, the higher the hope, the deeper the disappointment. I imagine that most people were hoping that the coronavirus pandemic would be over, or at least under control, by this point. Instead, coronavirus is still running rampant, with yet another variant - omicron - having recently been discovered. (Seriously, how many variants is that now? I lost count a while back.) At this point, I'm not sure that getting it under control is even possible anymore.
Perhaps I sound bitter and cynical as I say all this, but can you blame me? Things have a way of NOT working out the way we hoped they would. Learning to accept disappointment is just another (extremely unpleasant, but necessary) lesson we must endure. And for what it is worth, the chances of everything going right is roughly the same as everything going wrong. This means that the best case scenario and the worst case scenario have about an equal chance of happening.
With all that in mind, I wish you an Acceptable New Year.
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