And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

Podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols and this episode is titled Disappointment.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

All right, folks, how are you doing?

Have you had a good summer?

I feel like I'm solar-powered.

I really do enjoy being out in the sun, so I like this time

a year. And if the weather's not good, I do feel a little bit let down, which is a selfish

disappointment, I know, but you feel what you feel, don't you? And we've long known the

importance of looking below our emotions to see what else is driving it, to see if it's better placed, to help us deal with bad situations,

even the really bad ones. In his letter from Birmingham Jail in 1963, after being arrested on

the rather trumped-up charge of marching without a permit, Martin Luther King wrote,

amongst other things, this quote, he said,

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

In other words, if you feel disappointed, it's only because you care about something.

I remember when the theatre and art centre, where I did a lot of amateur dramatic stuff

closed down and we had to move to a new venue, which is fine, it's lovely, but it was really

sad to see everything being stripped out.

The council said that the place didn't make enough of a profit,

and the space could be put to better use. They had different values, I guess. They saw the purpose

of art as something to profit from, rather than to educate or inspire. And we still don't know

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