The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Or we might never have existed at all. Freaky. So we should cherish everything. Even this tiny ad:
a bit of art, as a gift, that will fit in a stocking