The propelling force of rejection.
"Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better."- Steve Maraboli.
The rejections are actually a pointer towards a cooler and more profitable direction if you can be crazy enough to accept changes despite the hurt it causes you.
I have had to cry and lament dozens of times because I was rejected and just felt I was really bad at what it was I thought I was good at and started out to do.
The term, "blessing in disguise" is good for describing those times we tried to fight the good from coming into our lives because we felt what was being taken away from us was the best.
The universe knows better and because we have no inkling what our lives truly shapes after and what will come, we struggle to stay irrelevant with false thoughts we are pursuing the best for our lives.
I once went for an interview at a FMCG company that was making waves and paying really well and failed.
Thing was that, I had passed through every stage of the interview until I was asked to define what Accounting meant.
It was supposed to be easy given I am an accounting graduate with upper credits and also then working in a bank. But I fumbled and couldn't give them the definition, I was lost to the question and froze until I started mumbling gibberish.
I was so disappointed with myself that I could not explain what happened. The interviewer was visibly disappointed and asked if I was who I said I was.
Long story short, I didn't get the job and had to return to my banking job. Almost 9 months later, the company had ran into problem and they started retrenching their workforce. 3 months before then, I was promoted and may new pay was almost equal to that which I wanted to leave my banking job for.
When I failed to give an answer as simple as "what is accounting?" at that job interview, I thought my life was over and sulked all through the months.
Had I gotten the job then, I would have been completely out of work within a year and missed out on the wonderful experiences I had as a banker.
Continuous success in life is not guaranteed, but a continuous pace to get better if we dare to try is surely one of the biggest guarantees many fail to see because, it doesn't exactly come out that way.
See the fails as a redirection to a path that will feel better and more easy to tread.
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