“Rejection is the empowerment of acceptance”
Rejection has a tendency to start at home because you’re growing up and listening to your parents or siblings and that’s where you start to learn rejection. Just hearing my sisters or mom talk about politics, religion and you do not see eye to eye with them you feel rejected. Then what ends up happening is when you go out into the world you start meeting your people, your tribe. And that is where rejection slowly becomes empowering because you realize that you weren’t alone even when you were at home. You realize that there are people who feel exactly like you. This is where you learn acceptance.
There is nothing more beautiful than meeting somebody you have nothing in common with and feeling connected to.
Rejection is the empowerment of acceptance.
I currently have a Mickey doll because I am a huge Disney fan. It’s the only place in the world I like going to that makes me feel like I’m a kid again so I can forget all the BS of the world.
I also have a Vanity Smurf because when I was a kid, I’m gay, he was the closest thing to a gay cartoon character besides Bugs Bunny being in drag. The Vanity Smurf was the essence of what we were not supposed to be, vain and effeminate.