to get disproportionately sad when expectations raised and shattered?

[ABagofPotPouri]

I don't know if this happens to other people but I really hate it when something happens that makes you excited and raises your hopes but then you realise you were being an idiot and your expectations are shattered and you are embarrassed that you were ever excited in the first place. Kinda like

you get an email titled something like Personal Invitation from Name of Someone Interesting You'd Love to have a personal invitation from who you vaguely know or is borderline famous. You get all excited and then open it to discover its no such thing - it's in fact a bog standard email from a mailing list trying to get you to buy a ticket to a fundraiser.

your work tells you have had a bunch of flowers delivered. you get excited thinking its from your Heartthrob crush but open the card to find its from the annoying ex.

makes me feel really doubly crappy and stupid.

does this happen to other people? make me feel better that Im not the only one.

Yes constantly !!!

Although my heartthrob / crush did like my Facebook comment recently so I was on a high for a week

I got a FB request from the “real” Pedro Pascal noting that I was a long time fan and he desperately needed cash transferred to get his visa to come to England for a premier 😂

Not any more, the older I get, the more cynical I become. I've learnt to only get excited by things that I have direct influence over. Other people will invariably let you down or disappoint you, they are, after all, only human.

@BinWim
I got a FB request from the “real” Pedro Pascal noting that I was a long time fan and he desperately needed cash transferred to get his visa to come to England for a premier

I didn't mean that sort of thing - not an obvious scam from a famous person you've never met. More something that raises your expectations that it could be real from someone you know that you would like to do say Personal Invitation from the Managing Director to Dinner at Claridges so for that split second you think your briliance at work has been noticed and you are going to get a lovely evening out but turns out to be a charity fundraiser that you have to pay for that has been sent to the entire company and anyone who has ever set foot in the place.