What you truly are is divine, not a mortal impression. By looking at yourself and the world through the prism of the personal self, by giving power to limited thought, you are overlooking your true nature and you are maintaining yourself in the spin of feelings and emotions, the duality of good and bad, better and worse and you experience disappointment and hope, both of which are empty and do not deliver you a glimpse of your true self which is godly.
Thought is pointing downstream. You overlook that thought is infected with the interior and exterior dualistic realm while your true nature is beyond such duality like the shining light of consciousness.