Death of a Dream

Grief was a miserable emotion. A friend once told me the hurt that came with the end of a relationship was painful because it was the death of a dream—the future you’d imagined with a lover, a loved one, a child, or a friend. That loss was its own painful, nearly tangible thing. You had to reimagine your future, perhaps in a different place, with different people, doing different things than you might have first imagined.

-Twice Bitten (Chicagoland Vampires)

Expectations

Higher expectations
also mean
Higher chance of being disappointed.

And I hate that feeling.