Rejection
“Why didn’t you try again?” She asked me.
“Being rejected once was enough for me,” I said in a low tone.
And saying that, I looked into her eyes. They had a message for me. A message telling me that not trying after rejection proved that I was a loser. It proved that failure had taken from me the confidence I had. Some failures give immunity. Some rejections make you stronger. But some rejections… They just take away the little confidence you have ever had in yourself. Why was this rejection the second type? Why did it never give me strength?
I still remember the time I had failed my first stage. It was a shattering experience. I, who was among the toppers in merit, had failed in a viva. I thought that I was never meant to be a doctor.
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Anybody who calls me a writer is a liar! My friends are liars. You voices are lying too! I know myself. I’m a person who just dreams of being awesome and considers it happening! My writings have never had the spirit in them. My writings have never had that engaging charisma in them! It was never meant to be! I never was a writer!”
And shouting that at my inner positivity, my cheeks were wet with warm tears: Tiny streams of salty water that contained some broken feelings in them… And perhaps, that confidence too. In those tears, I had lost the confidence of writing. I had lost the confidence of competing once again.
When I felt rejected on the stage failure, I knew that I had lacked. But I knew, too, that I could improve and that I had not used my full potential. But writing something is different. You need to engage your heart in it. You need to laugh, cry and even get angry when the characters of your writing do so. You need to feel with them. And once you jot down your feelings, a big sensitive issue evolves. The judge doesn’t understand. The readers, too, do not understand. But the truth is: They have the confidence of a new writer in their hands. If they appreciate and accept it, the confidence gets stronger. If they reject it, it breaks and gradually disappears into