By Kevin Eikenberry
Let me tell you a secret.
Things don't always go the way we want them to.
Let me tell you another secret.
We don't always hear what we want to hear.
These two statements are hardly secrets; we all know they are true. If they aren't secrets, then why do we act surprised when it happens? And worse, why does the surprise often turn to pouting?
Adult Pouting
Most adults don't walk around with a pout on their face, but that doesn't mean they aren't pouting. Pouting is when we are having an internal pity party because we haven't gotten what we wanted, things haven't gone the way we'd hoped they might, we heard something we didn't want to hear or disagree with, or we have to work on something when we would rather be doing something else.
So we pout.
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