IT WAS BEAUTY THAT REJECTED THE BEAST

Rejection is integral to all of our lives. Perhaps we are rejected in love or rejected in work. We might be rejected by friends, family, by a coop board, a college, our religion, by a school. I'm amazed by how many forms of rejection exist. So, how do we move forward when faced with this ever present possibility?

Faye Ray rejected King Kong. Perhaps, she was right to reject him. There might have been some anger and control issues that would have made the relationship difficult. Perhaps he only cared for her because of her good looks. "It was beauty that killed the beast." King Kong climbed to the top of the Empire State Building only to fall off to his sad end. Just think of how much rejection has gone in inside the Empire State building during this time of high unemployment. King Kong would have found much company today on his way down. My father told me he once worked in the Empire State Building, what he didn't tell me (and what parent would?) was how much rejection life would hold.

I work to make my children's life better, but I won't be able to save them from rejection. I work to make my life better, but I picked a field just brimming with rejection (or, at least that has been my experience). So how do you go on? How do you make the world a positive place for yourself and your children? Perhaps, we should all avoid movies like King Kong, or perhaps we should watch King Kong, Bridget Jones Diary, Kramer vs. Kramer, or any Jane Austen movie...