Dealing With Rejection
Dissed, dumped, kicked to the curb, scorned, spurned, and jilted. Whatever your preference is to describe the concept, if you’ve ever been burned, then you are already acutely aware of how it feels. But what is rejection at its fundamental core but an opportunity to accept your reality as it really is instead of how you prefer it to be? Don’t misunderstand me. I’m not trying to sugar-coat and/or gloss over the very real, psychologically debilitating effects some suffer at the hands of another. Rejection can have a profoundly negative impact on your self-esteem and outlook, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Depending on how you handle it, rejection can actually help to retain your dignity because it puts into perspective for you exactly what you would have realized on your own but for the involvement of your heart. If ever there was a more all-encompassing vehicle with which we use to blindside ourselves, and, otherwise sabotage our emotional well-being, I ca...