Today let’s be positive and talk about overcoming rejection.
Of course, there’s nothing positive about rejection itself: no matter how it’s done and who it involves, rejection is rejection. The strange thing is that different people get either more resistant or more sensitive to it, the more it happens. But whatever happens for you, it doesn’t have to mean the end.
The following is an extract from an old version of a book I’ve been writing, which has been edited slightly to apply to both men and women. (Buying said book when it’s published is highly recommended. 
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Yes folks, the bearer of positivity and all things wonderful has yet another rant. But there is a purpose behind this particular rant: it’s in anticipation of the upcoming V Day – my least favourite day of the year, for reasons that should be obvious by now. If you’re going to be single by next Sunday, my thoughts are with you.
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Well folks, in a few hours we will be leaving behind the mayhem of 2009, and embarking on the exciting yet uncertain adventure in 2010. Like 1990 before it, it marks the beginning of a new decade, which makes things even more uncertain. (I just hope to God that they don’t give this decade an equally shit name as “the noughties”.)
For me, as you’ve probably read in my posts, 2009 was a very telling year.
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“I deserve [this and that],” you inevitably hear someone screaming, proudly announcing (or gloating) their latest triumph.
“They deserve it,” other people convince themselves out loud in their little groups, talking about someone else (who is usually within hearing range).
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In The Kite Runner, one of the characters near the beginning of the film states:
The greatest sin is theft and all the sins are variations of it.
I believe this to be true. The very definition of stealing is to deprive someone of having a particular thing, whether it’s tangible or intangible. And no matter which way you cut it, theft is theft (as many people often like to recite, usually sitting on a high horse.)
I even got to thinking at one point: if you look at the Ten Commandments (whether or not you believe in Christianity), most of them are related to some form of theft.
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