REJECTION

re•ject (ri jekt¿; for n. rÈ¿jekt)vt.
1 to refuse to take, agree to, accede to, use, believe, etc.
 2 to discard or throw out as worthless, useless, or substandard; cast off or out
 3 to pass over or skip from (a record set by a record changer) without playing
 4 to throw up (food); vomit

 5 to rebuff; esp., to deny acceptance, care, love, etc. to (someone) [a rejected child]

 6 Physiol. to fail to accept immunologically (a part or organ grafted or transplanted into the body)
 n.a rejected thing or person　**************************************
    Number 5 above is a very insidious trait of our species which has caused considerable hurt and pain to a large portion of mankind.

    It starts at birth. If a child is adopted they can get a double dose, first by the birth parents and many, many times by the adopting parents who refuse to fully accept the baby or child because it is not ‘theirs’.

    Any infant or child with abnormal behavior or physical appearance will usually be resented and will later suffer ridicule and neglect at hands of family and society. If parents practice this kind of abuse the child may spend their whole lives being affected by this early ill treatment.

    The scars of childhood rejection run deep and may never be completely healed. The effected usually develop coping mechanisms and start to do some rejecting of their own by their teen years thus turn themselves into perpetrators of this sad sickness.

    The control freak and ultra-perfectionist are both suffers of this malady and driven by a lifelong fear of rejection. It’s the , "I will control all things in my life and then no one will be able to reject me" or the, "I will become perfect and they will have no reason to reject me ever again" statement that drives many people to live an unhappy existence.

    Other victims live lives of repression and depression never venturing out to stretch their persons or potential. Others will live lives of constant self-doubt and have low self-worth.

    The tragedy of this ailment is that most of those that suffer from it are completely unaware of how it has affected their lives and have no clue that it is the root of many of their current problems and challenges.


Hopefully, readers of this little blurb are neither victims nor perpetrators.

Now if you happen to be either one of these, perhaps you should…