Sometimes I get sad, because I notice that a really beautiful ingredient is now in season. Fresh and delicious. I reach out, let's work together, let's create a beautiful meal. They acknowledge the ingredient is beautiful, they patronize my passion, but then they dont go any further, they sit and let wait. I watch the beautiful ingredients slowly rot, into something no longer worth putting in a dish. Then, the foul odor becomes all anyone can smell. I'm not mad, I dont have resentment. I just wish I was a good enough marketer, I wish they were hungry, because I have so many recipe ideas.
Some things aren't about how good of a marketer one is, and are just meant either to happen or not. I find it best to just enjoy the good times in the present moment, maybe finding joy in eating the ephemeral ingredients one by one together before they rot instead of projecting ambitious phantasmal recipes is a healthier way of functioning, and see where that takes you. I find it to be a more reliable anchor to reality; what really drifts people away from one another is miscommunication when one of the - or even both - parties give(s) up on keeping a constant dialog, in favor of selfishly retreating back into the shell of their own little fantasy world. Which seems to be a natural human tendency and is understandable as such, but not unforgivable and one one's better off watching for the sake of everyone involved, for every day they don't is one closer to the expiring date.
If that can make you feel any better, remember that your situation most likely hasn't much to do with you personally, all relationships come and go following the pace of deciphering, then either accepting or not the other person's limitations, everything starts off as naively promising until a linear reality catches up and ruins part of that potential, but that's only waste if you chose to believe in more than what you already had in the first place. If you just let things flow naturally and keep the rationality of your attachment in check, there's no reason to end up with leftovers.