Yes, You Will Be Rejected
You will be rejected if you write.
Yes, even if it’s brilliant.
Yes, even if you know the editor and are the bestest friends.
Yes, even if you work really hard.
Yes, even if you have published before.
You will be rejected if you do anything.
Apply to school.
Ask someone out.
Propose.
Apply for a loan.
Try to get a job.
Are a scientist…
…an actor…
…an academic…
…a parent, a teacher…
Anything.
You will get rejected even if you get back up again, over and over and over, until your bones hurt and your heart feels hollow and you doubt your very soul.
You will be rejected now. And in the future. You will realize that scraps of hope you have clung to are just so much flotsam marking the place of past rejections you refused to see.
It will hurt. Perhaps less and less after time, but still some new rejection can be sharp enough to draw blood.
So maybe you can quit, you think. Escape the rejection.
But it’s still there. Always there. You can’t quit the world, and the world is made of the word No.
But not just No,
there is Yes, too. Atop the mountainous rubble of No, the towers of Yes stand.
Keep climbing.
Posted on September 7, 2018, in Critiques, Theories, and Random Thoughts and tagged life, rejection, writing. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.
Auston Habershaw 
You will never be rejected by those who care and believe in you and your innate ability, your talent and your intelligence.You will always have friends and followers who rejoice in your achievements, to.tje naysayers say “Chit, Man, who are you to think I am a quitter? What you think about me is a matter I will reflect upon, but it will never drag me down!”