It's A Guarantee

I realised something today. I wouldn't say it's something I've never known because on some subconscious level I must have known it, experienced it or talked about it at some time or another. So I'm putting it this way: it's just that it's something I've never realised and then consciously tried to remember before.

Today, I realised that
no matter what people say,
they always let you down.

People. Will. Let. You. Down.

Even if they say they won't, and even if they themselves believe that they won't. No matter how close you both seem to be and no matter how much you both think you care about each other, it happens. If not today, then someday. They'll let you down eventually. That's the one thing in life you can count on. It sounds like I'm jaded and badly gutted but I've already been deadened to the pains that come along with this realisation and I'm ready to face it.

People will let ME down.

And they have.

So, do we – those who have been let-down – just take it as it comes? Pick ourselves up, nurse our wounds and pretend that nothing's amiss? That nothing's happened? That nothing's wrong with anything at all? What does one do in the event that one experiences a let-down? And what does one do if that let-down is dispensed by a member of the close-to-heart? What does a let-down by a significant person really mean in the big picture? And what does it show at the microlevel? Essentially, does a broken heart represent a broken relationship, too?

Too many questions with no answers.

I have the answer if you don't ask any questions.

What you do is this: you count on nobody. Cos if that's what you do, you'll never end up disappointed with anybody.