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Reject Rejection

Rejection is denial by a person or people you expect support from in a quest, vision or pursuit. Rejection can be demoralising and devastating. As bad as it may be, depends on how you handle rejection, it cannot deterred you from achieving in life. Many people the world over have received rejection in one form or the other. While others resigned themselves to self pity, others have gone ahead to achieve what they wanted to achieved. In 1894, a sixteen year old found this not from his rhetoric teacher at Harrow, in England, attached to his report card: “A conspicuous lack of success”. The young man rejected the rejection and went on to become one of the most famous speakers of the twentieth century. His name is Winston Churchill. In 1902, an aspiring young writer received a rejection letter from the poetry editor of a monthly magazine. Enclosed with the sheet of poems, the 28-year old poet had sent was this curt not: “our magazine has no room for your vi