Rejection

How Do You Move Past Rejection? A Writer Reflects

Credits to Ben Huberman

Scrolling through blogs on WordPress, I came across the blog post mentioned above. This automatically grabbed my attention as rejection is a huge fear of mine. I’m in final year of college and the thoughts of getting a no from any company I will be applying for is haunting me.

In this blog post, the blogger is discussing “Hello Rejection, My Old Friend published by Writer Holland Rae, in which the writer discusses her personal experience with rejection, how she has dealt with it and what it has taught her.

Personally I found that very relatable, especially at the start of the blog post, where the blogger mentions that :

The road to every cheerful “yes!” is paved with multiple moments of “no, thanks.”

This particular sentence made me think into the future, and how perhaps I should attempt to mentally prepare myself for rejection. Throughout our lifetime we all experience rejection in one way or another, we can never fully predict it to be prepared for it, but it does not mean your’e a failure as a human. Rejection is important in life – of course it can in some cases demotivate you, but it also urges you to better yourself.

The highlights of Holland Rae’s experience with rejections in this blog post is quite inspiring to me;

I have gotten a lot of rejections. In fact, I pride myself on being pretty good at divorcing the rejection of my work from the rejection of me as a person.

This particular quote really appealed to me; the starting sentence is short and extremely relatable. The mention of separating the rejection of work from the rejection as a person is such an important message.

I think the most important thing to take from this, is that rejection is just a part of life, it is bound to occur at one point or another; but how we deal with it, is the most important!