June 27, 2008
In Praise of Disappointment
Virtually every emotion these days generates studies, popular books, and workshops. There are the five stages of grief, self-help decks of cards devoted to gratitude, umpteen studies of happiness, genres of invocations to hope, shelves of books on depression, monographs on envy, odes to melancholy (The Chronicle Review, January 18). It is disappointing, then, to note the paucity of literature on one elemental experience: disappointment. After all, disappointments forge our lives much as
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