today

I heard today that I didn't get accepted into a work program that I applied for. The program would have let me keep my current job, but go work at an international health program overseas for 3 months next summer. I'm disappointed.... I really thought I would get in and had all these plans in my mind for the next year because of it. And now it's not happening and the future feels blank stretching out before me. Now I need an alternate plan, which I suppose is grad school. But I definitely feel discouraged -- if I couldn't get into this program, why would a grad school want me? blech....

I went and sat in my car for a lunch break and googled "dealing with disappointment". Read some good reminders that even the negatives in life can be used positively if you look at it the right way -- as a growing and learning experience, an experience of life.