According to Osho, despair arises only when your doing is tied to expectation and result: the moment work becomes a serious goal with desired outcomes, missed targets breed frustration and bondage. Drop the demand that others—or life—deliver. Turn work into playful sharing, fulfilled in the very act itself. Then whatever happens is beautiful, and despair cannot touch you.
If you expect your work to deliver results, you feel despair when it doesn’t; if you do it playfully for its own joy, you stay light and happy.