BASIC TENETS OF DISAPPOINTMENT.

Disappointment as philosophy is a hard concept to describe. At it's root it's mainly about becoming free of the crushing let downs that our expectations provide. It's about liberating one's self from disappointment by embracing Disappointment. Make sense? Didn't think so.Here's what you have to do: Have a shitty childhood. It doesn't have to be specific just make sure it sucks. Being poor is a good one but that doesn't always guarantee shitty results because even though you have nothing and are starved half the time, you could have really loving parents and all that and become one of those American success stories where "pulling yourself up by the bootstraps" and "coming from nothing" are the magical catalysts responsible for your success, so if you're going to be poor, make sure it's the whole enchilada that includes merciless beatings, humiliation, parents engaging in drug use, prostitution, and even murder. On the other side of the coin if you must come from a well-to-do back round make sure there's enough neglect in your life to distort your development to the point of no return, being an asocial weirdo is paramount to understanding Disappointment (*note* all sorts of factors play a part in the development of an asocial weirdo, not just neglect by busy rich parents). These are the more extreme examples I can give of course (Not to say there's none more extreme but they are just a guiding example after all), for most Disappointanarians are average, like myself for example: I may have grown up in less than abject poverty, and had pretty cool folks to raise me but the looming Disappointment was always there. Socially I couldn't have been luckier. I was chubby, grubby and in love with comic books and role-playing games (not to mention Nintendo). Yes, I was that spazz who sat around in class and drew up character sheets, toted around a faux velvet bag of multi-sided dice and listened to "kill 'em all" on headphones at recess. All dues-paid card-carrying Disappointanarians have had similar experiences such as: bad luck with the opposite sex (or preferred sex if you like), alienation from peers, unpopularity, bland food, shitty haircuts, horrible soul-slurping jobs, mechanical failure, erectile dysfunction, small breasts, narrow still-born child bearing hips, greasy hair and that disorder that makes you stink worse than normal. The looming cloud of Disappointment knows no color, creed, gender or soda preference, it doesn't care. Some decide that this force, if you will, is responsible for their own pathetic lives while others use it to explain why other people are dumb, hard to get along with, foul smelling, limp dicked, narrow hipped corporate dick-jobbers with shitty haircuts. But no matter which sect you may fall into the remaining fact is this: Disappointment is for everyone.