On handling rejections

Nobody likes the feeling of being rejected. Rejection, a state wherein a person is excluded or discarded by another person or a group of people, is a usual circumstance that occurs to almost everyone. Being rejected happens not just to ordinary people, even celebrities or political figures get rejected in different ways.


A good example of a rejection story involving celebrities is when an actor loses on the audition for a movie role over a fellow actor. For the 2006 movie Dreamgirls, singers Fantasia Barrino and Jennifer Hudson both auditioned for the role of Effie White. Disney alumna Raven-Symoné also auditioned for the role, which eventually went to Jennifer Hudson. The role earned Hudson an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2007. In this situation, the other actors and singers who auditioned may have felt rejected, except for Hudson. Barrino, for one, jokingly complained to Hudson that she "stole her part."


Politicians may also experience the feeling of rejection whenever they lose the election to other politicians. For example, Republican Senator John McCain lost to Democrat Senator Barack Obama during the November 2008 US Presidential Elections. However, McCain made light of his defeat and even joked about it on an interview by saying that after his defeat, he has been"... sleeping like a baby. Sleep two hours, wake up and cry, sleep two hours." Sadly, there are politicians who cannot take the rejection and start accusing their opponent of cheating their way to victory.


However, for teens who are applying for college, rejection is a bitter defeat. A student receiving a postcard of rejection from a university usually means losing hope that he/she will ever be accepted to other universities, which should not be the case. Letter or postcard printing is the common method of informing students that they did not pass the minimum requirement of their chosen university.


Rejection happens to almost everyone. Being rejected doesn't mean that a student is not good enough or not worthy of what they're after for. If universities print postcards for rejection, a student should not be afraid of it. Students should remember that every rejection has a positive equivalent, if only they would not let it affect their performance.