The worst pain in the world is the pain of rejection and the most painful rejection is that which comes from someone you love so dearly. The reason is obvious. By freely giving your love, you give another person the capacity to freely reject your love as well.
I am no stranger to rejection. I have experienced the worst kind. I describe the emotional pain as something worse than any physical pain. People couldn’t be more accurate calling it a bleeding heart or a broken heart because it sure felt like the heart is actually bleeding and breaking.
But we know very well that something which is bleeding and breaking needs fixing. And so we frantically search for ways to do the job. We struggle so hard because unlike any other job where working with more people lets you be more efficient, in this particular job, having to rely on your own strength gets it done and over with faster.
Bouncing back from rejection is rather difficult because the damage it does to our self-esteem is significant, sometimes irreversible. Some people completely lose it and the outcome is really terrible. I think that self-esteem is the least cared for aspect of our health. We tend to ignore the dents and cracks on our self-esteem because for some reason, we think that they’ll heal on their own. Heck, we care more about the calories we put in our bodies than our emotional wear and tear.
Foolish as it may seem, I think the world is doing an injustice to people who are on the receiving end of rejection. Think of it as an emotional injury. We hold people accountable for inflicting us physical injury, right? Why don’t we do the same for those who caused us an emotional injury? Then, we will need psychologists to work as policemen. Policemen catching people for the crime of rejecting people. Yes, I know it sounds extremely odd but you get the point. 🙂
Happiness.NOW 