How do you deal with disappointment?

Sometimes whenever I think of the cliche “you can never get what you want so deal with it”, I just smile.  And oftentimes I ask myself, should I stop then and there if that situation arises?  If I can’t have what I wanted, should I just give up?  Should I try till the last shred of hope in me falters?  Then I remembered a good friend of mine whose life never fails to amaze me.  She has lupos, a disease which eats up your immune system until such time that your anti-bodies are the ones causing your organs to malfunction.  Even though she was diagnosed with this deadly disease, still she showed a great zest for life.  And I told myself, how is it possible to live life normally when all your hopes seem to crash on you?  How do we deal with life’s disappointment? Do we throw tantrums? Do we sulk around in the corner? Do we lose faith?  Or do we treat them as blessings in disguise?  There are things that we won’t normaly do when life is ok, when life seems to be on our side.  But how about when odds seem to be against you? Whenever I’m confronted with disappointments, I just close my eyes and try to think clearly so I can make a good decision.  It’s of no use to mull around the problem until you become absorbed by it.  I must admit that there are things in life that we have no control of.  But do we stop there? NO.  We’ll just have to try harder, try to be better and learn from the lessons of our disappointment.  More importantly I try not to affect the people around me nor blame them for whatever misfortune that I encountered.  It’s how I turn around the experience that matters.  It doesn’t mean that you fail that you can’t move forward.  There’s always this idea of getting up and continuing the journey, in case you haven’t heard of it haha.  Life will always have a way to disappoint us, from not being able to eat what we crave, to not being able to accomplish what we intend to.  It’s one of those elements that spice life up.  Well then so what?  We might also  have forgotten, life is also about moving on —  moving on from mistakes and moving forward to furthering ourselves to be better.