Anonimo
The unplanned celebration
I didn't get the promotion I had worked towards for months. I spent the entire journey home rehearsing how I would explain the disappointment 😥 to my family. When I opened the door 🚪, my friends were waiting with takeaway food and a handmade certificate declaring me " Employee of the Week for Surviving Absolute Nonsense". I laughed so hard that I nearly cried. They didn't tell me the rejection was a blessing or pretend it didn't matter . They simply sat with me while I complained about everything. For the first time that day. I stopped feeling like a failure. I was disappointed ☹️, but I wasn't disappointed in myself alone.
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Sometimes, the best kind of support isn’t someone telling you everything happens for a reason, but someone simply making space for your disappointment. The handmade certificate was such a thoughtful and hilarious gesture! I love how your friends didn’t try to minimise your feelings; they just reminded you that one rejection doesn’t define your worth. ❤️
its genuinely one of most basic things in life to realise sometimes things just don’t work out and ut has nothing to do with a lesson or a short fall. the world is cruel sometimes and it is ok. both disappointment in such a failure and disheartened reflections makes one sad. Your friends realise the most simple and yet most unheeded expression of such a time as this, the need for venting because it didn’t work out.