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Struggles, rejections, defeat — as painful as they are, they shape us. If we channel our energy towards positivity, we win.
Our first natural instinct when we get rejected is to reflect inward and ask the seemingly never-ending question “Why not me?”. What we often fail to remember — is that we are unique. You are unique in your own way, as am I… and so is your Cat. We all have certain personalities, desires and more importantly, we all have our own unique JOURNEYS.
Just because you faced a certain rejection somewhere does not mean that you are inadequate in any way at all.
Being raised in a society where technologies such as Television, the Internet and the biggest of all — social media provide constant stimuli into our conscious and sub-conscious minds about how we should look, walk, talk, behave, dress and whether we have achieved certain milestones by a certain age, does something to us in a way that when we fail (in any circumstance) to “measure up” to any single one of these so-called standards, we automatically feel inferior.
We are now just so used to being mean to ourselves, harsh on our minds, bodies and souls that we often don’t realize when we’ve reached a point of exhaustion — commonly known as burnout. One of the most common culprits that brings about this exhaustion is called overthinking.
