Accept Rejection And Move On With Hope

It is a part of life

You try hard but may face rejection

After hundreds of articles had been submitted to a particular publication on Medium and published by them without a single rejection, an article was rejected. There are a number of editors for most publications, and each editor has a set of criteria with which he or she judges the work of others. This was a new editor that had not been encountered previously. The comment received said that there was now so much competition that they were having to be more selective. It said not to feel bad that they passed on the article.

Then the article was submitted it to another publication which had invited to submit. They accepted it and published it within minutes with glowing comments about the article and the photos which were included.

The next time an article was submitted to the publication where the one piece was rejected, it was with some hesitation. The hope was that it would not get assigned to that same editor. The article was immediately published. Lo and behold, it was the same editor who had rejected the other article.

Go figure.

Rejection will be part of life. Hopefully, it will be infrequent and not cause huge problems. We cannot escape this life without some rejection, trials, problems, and disappointments. We will surely have our share or more than our share.

We need to keep trying and not let rejection and disappointment ruin our chances or our hope. We must anticipate success even if we are sometimes thrown a curve. We need to keep dreaming and not give up because someone chose to reject us or turn down our work.

Life is difficult at times. There will be many trials and failures in a lifetime. We need to overcome them and keep moving forward. It may seem unlikely to be able to make it with opposition staring us in the face, but we should keep an optimistic attitude.

We would do well to express gratitude for the good things that happen in life and not let the bad things defeat us.