Tag: rejection

I composed most of it in my head to take my focus away from hoping no one would try and speak to me, despite how much I wanted to talk to others

Keywords: Day Job , Mental Health , Ramblings , Submissions , Writing , Anxiety , Autism , Mental Health , NaNoWrimo , Rejection , WhatCulture , Writers Forum , Writing

That may sound like a massive contradiction but welcome to my head. My therapist suggested contacting one of the speakers and writing down what I wanted to say to him as a way of exercising that particular demon. That’s on the “To do this week” list.

https://kevinmchugh.co.uk/2021/11/15/rejected-isolated-and-self-reflective

I’m left wondering how close or how far a story is from what I want and need

Keywords: publishing , writing , rejection , short stories , submissions

I tend to submit my stories to magazines whose acceptance rates are 1% – 3%. I’m still trying to figure out what kind of stories the editors of those magazines prefer, so there’s much fingers-crossed submitting which results in rejections at least once a week.

https://jelenadunato.com/2021/11/10/rejection-rejection

I want people I care about to be happy and I go into DON’T WORRY BE HAPPY mode sometimes

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I realized that that whole chain of traumatic memories and accompanying feels boiled down to two things for me. Fear of abandonment and rejection. Breaking news: when I boil them down and process them almost ALL of my negative self talk and negative emotions are rooted in those fears. That people I *think* love me will just…leave. And the curtain will fall and it will just be me wondering why I make everyone leave.

https://emdrrecovery.wordpress.com/2021/09/25/little-things

As much as I wanted to just leave my bag and head for the car (because I wasn’t in the mood), I had to go get it, so I did

Keywords: christian , dependence , faith , god , journey , joy , peace , relationships , singleness

God, forgive us for trying to take our life in our own hands. Give us wisdom, to let go. Fill our lives with you. God, you are all that I want, you are all that we need. If anyone is like me today, hurting with rejection or feeling alone I pray that you give us a sense of companionship and community. I love you and thank you for giving freely and abundantly! Amen!

https://thefaithjourneyblogger.wordpress.com/2021/09/18/where-it-all-began

The most that we can do is feign interest until it is our turn to talk

Keywords: disaster , funemployed , stupid , twentysomething , unemployed , writing , zerotohero

The thing is that I no longer have anything to talk about. I am at the stage where I would happily dive into rejection email after rejection, bathe in bad interviews, drown in ‘will I won’t I’ moments for the next year or so. But unfortunately, there is nothing to Will I Won’t I about. At least not for now. I always thought that I would emerge in my early twenties with a blinding dream, and that I would follow that dream and take the failures and heartbreak that came with it. But coming from somebody who kinda likes to write, kinda likes to paint, kinda like to make people laugh, kinda likes to get her head down with a mundane activity that relies in no way on my personality or people skills whatsoever – I am here to say that it is officially not enough. Because nobody gets anywhere on Kinda. So my next question is – how the Fuck am I supposed to just Pick A Dream????????????????????????????????????

https://painfulperiod.wordpress.com/2021/06/23/unemployed-loser

I had the courage to make choices in spite of the disapproval of others

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I worked my way through graduate school, taught in the inner city for seven consecutive years, paid my own bills (car payment, car insurance, utilities, rent, etc.). I wrote and recorded my own folk album, and I had at least three romantic relationships. I proposed to a man I loved and was rejected by him and my best friend, I was accused of intentionally deceiving and “stealing” a man because he was interested in me and not my friend; again, I was rejected. My family was both antagonistic and unsupportive of me. Still I “warrior-ed” on. I did not need the approval of these people to be the person I WANT TO BE. I let it go.

https://sweetnessbe.wordpress.com/2021/02/15/be-a-listener