Read the full article which is published on Philosophy Bits (external link)Rejection is always painful. It means learning that someone I’m interested in is not interested in me. Strong feelings necessarily arise. I feel grief over the lost possibility of a valuable connection. I feel sadness over the discovery that I am not what the other wants. I feel anger over being discarded like a useless object.
It’s almost impossible not to experience such feelings after being rejected. As I highly value the person doing the rejecting, I also value their judgment of me. And they’ve judged me unworthy of an effort towards a lasting connection.
I might feel a desire to lash out in response to this judgment, to declare that I no longer value them either, but I would only be deceiving myself. I do value them or I would never have sought the connection in the first place.
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