The Disappointment Rebound

It is almost a daily problem being faced in football during the transfer window. Clubs wait weeks, maybe months, or even years to sign a player. Then they get gazumped by another club with more spending power and it's back to the drawing board.

With time running out, some clubs panic and set their sights on signing some player that they had never previously thought of grabbing, just because the position needs filling. Woe betide if that player then turns out to be a damp squib.

It's described as 'the disappointment rebound'. Or, in plainer terms, "We can't get player 'A' so we'll have to settle for player 'Y'". So the football club suddenly drops its expectations and signs a much less rated player.

And so it is in other aspects of life. I have recently been liaising with an online company which I had hoped would help me with Phase 2 of my current internet journey. Phase 1 was easily enough achieved through my writing and a skill in creating websites or parts thereof directly with HTML and CSS coding. I may be a little rusty in the coding department but, it's like riding a bike, if you fall off then you get back on again and ride it until it wobbles no more. I just needed to practice a little more with my coding and it is coming back. Phase 1 is this blog site.

Disappointingly, after spending several weeks working hard on my Phase 2 and continually facing software issues that the online company failed to address, I had to walk away. All my hard graft had come to nothing and I am now faced with having to find a new business with which to start all over again. I am keeping what Phase 2 is under wraps for the time being.

But, problems like that happen in life and in general. I know that I will eventually succeed with obtaining my Phase 2 goal, even if it eventually crashes through lack of popularity. Yes, I am bitterly disappointed about the amount of effort and toil I had already put into it to no avail, although I am old enough and experienced enough to pick myself up, dust myself down and start all over again (maybe I could use those words if I ever wrote a film musical).

Yet, I am also wary of what is known as 'the disappointment rebound'. It describes when you go from one disappointing experience straight into a 'greener pastures' situation without thinking things through rationally. Before jumping from one situation to a second similar situation without a moment in between to breathe. Yes, I want to get my Phase 2 completed and finished but, I also know when to wait for that right opportunity to come along.

I am a great believer in karma or what goes around, comes around. If someone does another an ill will then you can bet your bottom dollar that karma will find a way to bite the antagonist on the derriere. Equally, if something you are involved in suddenly goes wibble, it's karma that will find a way of presenting a new and even better proposition. Some people call it fate, but that relies totally on the belief that fate is predestiny, whereas karma will only intervene to 'realign the planets' if something goes awry.

I am pretty confident that I can succeed with pushing through with my Phase 2 project but I am in no ultimate rush to do so. My life doesn't depend on it except that I hope to see it come to fruition before my time on this spinning globe is up. I can bide my time and do more research and avoid 'the disappointment rebound'.