The Hardest Lesson Rejection Ever Taught Me
The Hardest Lesson Rejection Ever Taught Me There was a time when I believed loyalty meant holding on, even when it hurt. I believed love meant making excuses for people. I believed that if I gave enough, loved enough, sacrificed enough, or proved my worth enough, people would eventually value me the way I valued them. I was wrong. Abandonment and rejection have a way of distorting what we believe we deserve. They convince us that scraps are enough because somewhere along the way we learned to survive on very little emotionally. We confuse access with acceptance, attention with love, and history with loyalty. We continue pouring into people who have repeatedly shown us that they have no intention of pouring back into us. Unfortunately, I had to endure a lot of pain from broken souls before I could truly see that. Those experiences taught me one of life's greatest lessons: not everyone is meant to have the same level of access to you. Healing changes your standards. It changes wha...
