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How to prepare yourself (vaguely speaking) for stressful situations in life

We fantasize what betters our emotions to feel good about ourselves for the time being as a brief mental escape. At the time of making ourselves feel good we weaken the strength of our emotions. For when something goes opposite of what you fantasize you feel disappointed and act on those emotions because you weren't prepared for things that may go wrong. So what is there to be disappointed about if nothing ever happened? You are merely depressed because of your fantasy. Dont think good things...just understand what is going on first and then act on that. That is how to prepare for stressful situations in life. I'll give an example.

You really like a girl/boy, or at least you think you like a girl/boy. You dont know how they feel about you, and you assume they may like you either because they do like you or they are just affectionate people in general. And that happens..trust me...So you think of all the good of you two being together, making up dialoge within your mind that satisfies your emotions of hope of what to come. Then it turns out she/he didnt like you and maybe liked someone else. Well, why are you disappointed? Because nothing in reality satisfied your fantasy. If you never fantasized about something such as that and you just tried to understand whats going on in reality there would be nothing to be disappointed about. Do you see?

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  if we never hoped for the best, do you think that we would really be where we are today?? if thomas edision gave up when he was inventing the light bulb, do you think we would have light today??
  
  if we dont hope for the best, nothing will change for the best.
  
  if we do, and we find dissapointment on our doorstep, we can move on. a little stronger and a little wiser. but we will always hope that, next time, that cute boy/girl who sits in front of you in biology really does like you the way you like them.

  100%  Voted for by Kazrith, Weydon.

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    Weydon
    February 18, 2007
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    Also, it would be wise to nip those feelings in the bud. Don't waste weeks or even months pining over the person and reading into signals that aren't there. If s/he turns out down, then you'll feel less miserable and awkward than if you let those feelings blow out of proportion.
    
    Hope and confidence are not bad. Putting everything into the outcome working out is. Brush it off and do better next time.
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    opera ghostess
    March 16, 2007
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    pessimistic optimism

    i think that we should hope for the best and dream big, but still know that there is a possibility of a let-down. prepare yourself to be hurt and when it happens at least you're ready. some things we just can't change (like whether or not a girl/boy likes us), but some things we can and when it comes to those things (like standing up for what we believe in, in order to make a change in society), we can't take no for an answer... as Westly (in the Princess Bride) once said, "failure is not an option."

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