How To Get Over The Fear Of Rejection When You Go To College
How can I get over the fear of rejection when I get to college?
You are talking to the founder of rejection awareness week. It's an actual holiday. It's an event every February 7th through to the 14th. It's not about getting rejected. It's about having the courage to take risks, because what I've seen is we're so afraid that someone we like won't like us, so we have to track this persons every move through Facebook or Myspace or through friends of friends. We can't just say what we feel. In order to really find what it is that you want, you have to have the courage to do that. You have to give the world permission to not always respond to you, the way that you want to be responded to. Not everyone's going to always love you, not everyone's going to always like you, but even if that person doesn't like you or love you, it doesn't mean you aren't beautiful, hot and attractive. What you need to do is train for the sport of taking risks. That's what rejection awareness is about, and if you want to say something or you want to do something and you're uncomfortable doing it, take a step back, put on the tightest thong you can find, and look in the mirror. Whatever is hanging out of your thong physically you're going to be embracing - you're not going to physically embrace it, you're going to embrace it emotionally, and you're going to change it in a healthy way. You take that thong off, you put it on your head, and the things hanging out of your emotional thong you either embrace or you change in a healthy way using the people, places, and resources on campus. You surround yourself with great people who are going to tell you things you need to hear, so if somebody makes you feel ugly or unattractive you can turn to those people who make you feel hot and tell you those things you might forget when you're in a new place. That's called training for the sport of taking risks. Ultimately, what you can do is say what you feel and do the things you want to do. You can give people permission to not always like you and know that you are so hot and attractive, and you can take risk after risk after risk. If you get rejected, that's just the beginning. Celebrate because you took the risk.
