Frustration
Posted By Aaron Marcelli on May 26, 2009
The following is a revision of a personal journal entry from a little less than a year ago. For those of you who are out of state or have not had consistent contact with me and have asked about my story, it may help fill in some of the holes.
Frustration is both a word and emotion that has been a big part of my life in the past few months. I began pondering why I continued to fell this way and what that term really meant. It’s obvious to me that I have been frustrated as a result of not feeling that my life is going very well right now. My job, my finances, and my relationships are none very good. They are not as good as I want them to be. They are not as good as they have been in the past. They are not as good as I believe they could be now. And as I lay it out and look at it in that way, I gain greater insight to what the word frustration means. It is a very particular and detailed word that can only be used in relation to something that could be better. The only reason I or anyone else gets frustrated is because the subject of that with which we are frustrated has the potential to be so much better. If we know a person, object, or situation could be or produce more, we get frustrated when it’s not. We don’t feel that way just because something is bad. If a dead end situation is bad, we may get sad, mad, discouraged, or depressed, but we don’t actually get frustrated because we know it really is not and cannot get any better. When we are frustrated, we can loose hope. But when we get discouraged, we have no hope. That’s why such aggravation with life is so tough – because we know what we envision is possible. We believe it could be better. We can see things being differently. So even though frustration is tough, maybe we can press on knowing that the fact there is true frustration at all means that things can get better, and perhaps they just may.
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