Disappointment

Jeff  Burns
Author: Jeff Burns
Word Count: 7
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Disappointment

When your best isn’t good enough

  • Jen Whyte

    Jen Whyte

    Hmmmmmm!

  • demon

    demon

    Yep…good one

  • RichardV

    RichardV

    True. Just ask my wife. LOL :-)

  • Dale Wilhelm

    Dale Wilhelm

    You just have to keep on , keeping on… no mater what- Joe Dirt.

    =)

  • John Segon-Fisher,  RPA

    John Segon-Fis...

    One thing Jeff. It’s all you can do right now.

  • Halcyon007

    Halcyon007

    Use super powers
    Eat more cards

  • gladders

    gladders

    get drunk off your face….

  • Rhana Griffin

    Rhana GriffinRedbubbley Schweppervescence

    Do you need a hug?

  • Tabitha B

    Tabitha B

    Get up! Keep trying! Never stop!

  • Wendy  Slee

    Wendy Slee

    or when you go to the stress and discomfort of eating all those cards and all you get is constipated !!!! No brilliant creative input after all….lol

  • Andrew Bosman

    Andrew Bosman

    Just keep swimming, just keep swimming…..

  • Jeff  Burns

    Jeff Burns

    Rhana: Would never pass up a hug
    Boz: I hope you don’t mean swimming over to see you cause that would be a huge disappointment. I’d never make it!! And there’s sharks.

  • Rhana Griffin

    Rhana GriffinRedbubbley Schweppervescence

    Hey!!! Boz stole my line!!!!

  • phlgrl33

    phlgrl33

    As long as you get up to try again, you have not failed…. SMILE JEFF!

  • Luuezz

    Luuezz

    Maybe they weren’t good enough!

  • Globalphotos

    Globalphotos

    awwww….......

  • Feisty

    Feisty

    gotta say i have experienced this more than i would like….

  • Phillip Moore

    Phillip Moore

    Good one. I know the feeling. Sometimes no matter how hard you try, it just won’t work and you have to change your game plan.

  • Michelle Shoosmith

    Michelle Shoos...

    Cheer up emo kid worry less

  • missalyshachristine

    missalyshachri...

    sad:(
    but keep on truckin!
    sorry if youre feeling that way…its not the best feeling in the world

  • kari

    kari

    ‘big hug’ to you…

  • funfair

    funfair

    um…having one kidney is better than none…so there…
    cheer up everybody :)

  • Amanda Moscoe

    Amanda Moscoe

    well all you can do is be your best and if someone doesn’t think that’s good enough then they aren’t good enough themselves. All you need do to do is keep doing what you’re doing and smile while doing it. :-)

  • Alan Rodmell

    Alan Rodmell

    Better still Jeff – “Don’t win the National Lottery….again”

  • Beatriz R. Aldridge

    Beatriz R. Ald...

    never give up.

  • davidmilne

    davidmilne

    If at first you don’t suceed,try,try,again….......A spider and Robert the Bruce.
    Alternative-Donald duck it!

  • mlgkats

    mlgkats

    all the matter is how you feel, know one else

  • lettie1957

    lettie1957

    hi Graene
    Ask God to help you and He will.
    regards Aletta Here’s a big Hug

  • lettie1957

    lettie1957

    Sorry Jeff – - I put wrong name.

  • shall

    shall

    God I know this feeling so bloody well, how it hurts to carry that knowledge, that you are not enough, that you never will be.. Yes .. I know this feeling so well!

  • velveteagle

    velveteagle

    I get to a point where I just think .. I know nothing. I am never let down that way and I leave the door open to learn more each day.. how boring if we were the best or even thought we were..

  • BuddyH

    BuddyH

    We’re on the same page,Jeff. It is what drives me to do better,thats why you’ll often see changes in my portfolios.

  • thrumyeyes

    thrumyeyes

    You got that right my friend

  • Jessica  Tremp

    Jessica Tremp

    Jeff, there’s ache in so little words

  • BarbBarcikKeith

    BarbBarcikKeith

    That’s only the limitations we put on ourselves..
    Good enough for who?

  • MissKristy

    MissKristy

    Ohh…isn’t it the most awful feeling in the world.

    I owe you a happy poem..I haven’t forgotten :)

  • EmptyHead

    EmptyHead

    Climb up the spout again

  • Kathryn Potempski

    Kathryn Potempski

    Get up, dust off, start again

  • PhotogeniquE IPA

    PhotogeniquE IPA

    hmmm… deep!

  • StacyLee

    StacyLee

    This is heart wrenching Jeff hugs

  • hcroft

    hcroft

    This speaks volumes to me well done -

  • paul romanowski

    paul romanowski

    OH, MAN….......YOU DAMN GOOD AND YOU DO GOOD ALWAYS…...CHEER UP

  • paul romanowski

    paul romanowski

    ITS JUST THAT IN THE WWW WORLD THERE IS SO LITTLE TIME FOR ANY ONE TO TAKE TIME….....WE ALL GET LOST I THE SHUFFLE OF ONSLAUGHT OF NEW AND OVERWHELMING…
    MY FEELINGS….......TO MANY CHANNELS ALL AT ONCE…......BUT ITS ALL GOOD…I HOPE

  • Paul Gibbons

    Paul Gibbons

    When I started work my boss said something similar but means a totally different thing :

    Good Enough, is not good enough.

  • transmute

    transmute

    What is ever good enough?

  • Elenne Boothe

    Elenne Boothe

    MAKES YOU THINK. WOW!!!!!!!!!!!

  • craftsman

    craftsman

    i know that feeling

  • Lisa  Jewell

    Lisa Jewell

    It will have to do ;) cause one can only give their best….

  • Kath Cashion

    Kath Cashion

    Bugger.

  • Jeff  Burns

    Jeff Burns

    Thanks everyone for the comments! :-)

  • loramae

    loramae

    I have read this several times and it stops me in my tracks each time…I say “who says!”...

  • Anni Morris

    Anni Morris

    These 6 words encapsulate ‘disappointment’ so well.

  • Sandra Chung

    Sandra Chung

    I had this feeling on more than one occasion. I had one place tell me my photographs were ‘too artistic to be of any use”. I am very happy to have found RedBubble.

  • Vonnie Murfin

    Vonnie Murfin

    Never give up! Believe in yourself! Your time will come. That is what I always tell myself when I feel like things just aren’t going my way.

  • umauma

    umauma

    I can share that feeling with you Jeff. perfect, 6 words that convey so much…heartfelt!!

  • LisaKlein66

    LisaKlein66

    DITTO!!! I feel the same. Sigh but I know that one day I will get that shot that everyone will not just say wow, but they will like enough to have on their wall or desk.
    Cheers to a better tomorrow.

  • Pagly2

    Pagly2

    If its not good enough ,, then its not your best…...only you can judge you…..try it from a different angle…...........................there are many angles to all pictures….be gentle with yourself…...

  • IngerMargrete

    IngerMargrete

    Very true:)

  • ktspinstu

    ktspinstu

    i know exactly how you feel!

  • brutusB3

    brutusB3

    thanks

  • Farmncamera

    Farmncamera

    I say Lora Mae got it right!!!. :)

  • Adam Bykowski

    Adam Bykowski

    I know the feeling dude…..I know the feeling. Hang in there.

  • Shoaib .

    Shoaib .

    so true

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