Imagine you are a Tiffany Vase.
You're one of a kind.
Someone has put you together with the most extraordinary care.
You're uniquely beautiful.
But you are blue. You are a blue vase.
And if you are put on display and somebody wants an orange vase, there is nothing you can do.
You are who you are. And the most you know that, the less personally you will take it when someone
chooses something else.
-Julie Motyka, Actress
I think we can all agree that rejection sucks. Whether it is getting dumped by someone you thought was The One, getting that courtesy email from a no-longer-potential employer, or not getting cast in a play or chosen for a team, nobody wants to be told that they aren't wanted.
But, here's the thing: It's not you, it's them.
Seriously.
You are perfect. We all are.
Like the proverbial snowflake, each one of us is created in our own unique mold and then it's thrown away. Each one of us is that way for a reason.
It's in comparing ourselves to others who have what we want or allowing someone else's preferences make us feel inferior that we forget that we are perfect just the way we are.
Rejection simply means that whatever you were going after wasn't the right fit for you. If you can see rejection for what it is, the fear of it will fall away, and you will no longer be afraid to risk it in your journey to find your best fit in the world.
Don't forget that you are priceless, like a Tiffany vase or the Hope Diamond, but even more so because you are a living, breathing being and the world is your oyster. If someone prefers the orange vase to your brilliant blue one, that does not make you any less fabulous.
