All that glitters is gold and glass glitters - therefore glass is gold

Stress and unhappiness are unmetedness and expectations are unmet - therefore expectations are stressful.

Don't lower your expectations, do away with them altogether as they are a form of worry/future telling? We don't know what is going to happen. We hope certain things will happen, we work toward doing the best we can to help them happen but expecting them to happen as if we have a right to them? If other people or situations beyond our control are involved how can we know?

It is alright to be disappointed in one's self for not doing one's best in one's own life and I would not want to lower expectations of myself, I would want to be disappointed in such an event? But being disappointed in another person for not doing their best in your life. . . no fair!