Rejection is Redirection
You hear this all the time, but I think it’s important to say it again: Rejection is Redirection.
Because it never gets easier—rejection always hurts and if not, stings a little.
Whether it’s the rejection of a job, an opportunity, a friend, or a relationship, each door that closes, another surely opens. Because if every door stayed closed forever, life would just be static, it wouldn’t exist. Looking back, you will see how everything that has ever happened—good or bad— built you up for this moment in some way, shape, or form.
Because no matter how devastated or lost, I’ve never failed myself—you’ve never failed yourself. Because true failure, is when life knocks you down and you choose to stay down. You can’t fail, if you’re always learning, growing, and trying. Looking back, you know you survived every time.
If everything that didn’t work out, is a lesson learned, then you didn’t lose. You know where you’ve been, you now have a better idea of where you’re headed. You know what worked and didn’t work, and you know what you are meant for and not meant for.
Rejection is just the universe’s way of saying “no, not right here, not right now, not anymore.”
Rejection is not “something is wrong with you, you’re not good enough, you’re a failure.”
Rejection is just a turn of events; a decision made for you. It hurts because we perceive it personally.
They say be careful of what you ask for, because sometimes the things we think we are praying for, are the very things that are bad for us.
Sometimes when we don’t know what is best for our self, or when we’ve been given one too many signs we chose to ignore; the universe does its job to keep things in order—it halts you in your current path, so that you can take another turn, that will lead to another possibility.
In all the times I’ve been rejected, I believed I was being punished. Because rejection, is like being lost in a maze with dead end after dead end, but if we had a map showing us all the checkpoints, we wouldn’t worry knowing this was just part of the journey. Ultimately, rejection is hurtful because it makes us feel hopeless and terrified not knowing the outcome and living in uncertainty.
But really, I don’t regret a single rejection in my life. It always led me to something better, and I could not envision myself still living as the same person before that rejection. It would be a disservice to the world, and to myself, to stay in a place that no longer served my potential.
Remember my friends, rejection is just redirection.