Disappointment A Powerful Emotion
Most people have expectations of how something is going to turn out. When things do not turn out the way, we want them to turn out; the feeling of disappointment takes over.
Disappointment is the feeling people get when something or someone fails to live up to our expectations.
There are many ways and reasons why we become disappointed.People can feel disappointment in themselves or others .Sometime we are disappointed in a movie that we have seen or a concert we have attended. Disappointment is feeling you get when your team looses the baseball game. The feeling you get when you do not get that promotion at work in witch you have worked so hard that disappointment. Parents have high expectations for their children so when you get bad marks on your report card they feel Disappointment toward you.
The essay Salvation written by Langston
Hughes is a great example of someone being disappointed in the outcome of a situation.
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experience the act of being saved and receiving the Holy Ghost; however, Langston is not saved at his aunt's church. Hughes aunt had told him what to expect when you are saved.When you are saved, you see a light and something inside you happens. She said you could feel Jesus in your soul. Therefore, while at church Langston sat waiting for Jesus to come to him. Soon all the Young sinners went up to the alter to be saved. Langston
however just kept waiting to see the light, waiting for Jesus to come to him. Jesus never came to Langston that night in the church filled with a crowd of sinners who had just been saved.