No sense of bitter disappointment about others having “failed” us can darken our day without our first having fashioned high expectations for them; which means that when we find ourselves suffering for the actions of another, we need only realize the following truth. Our negative reaction is not the bitter fruit of his or her perceived fault: the secret source of what troubles us is what we would have that person be.

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