Rejection Is A Blessing In Disguise

Tonight is my first time writing since SurfKY shut down in Lexington in January. I had gotten a job that not only I loved but was good at and that to me was my first big step of being a successful college graduate/adult. One day I was going to interviews and catching up on Lexington's newest artists and sports stats, and the next day I was being notified that at the first of the year I would no longer have a job.

This was a hard thing for me to swallow. I had a taste of success. I was networking, meeting fascinating people everyday and keeping up with my own column that people actually enjoyed reading. It was so hard for me to understand why this was happening to me, and without searching for answers, I put my computer to the side and slipped into a rut.

From my experience, I think that if anyone can make it past their first year out of college without losing sight of their goals and who they are, they can accomplish whatever they set out to do in the first place. In college they taught me how to write a resume' but they didn't teach me how to handle the letter that came informing me that they 'had found someone else to fill the position.' We were taught where the best places would be to look for a job, but we didn't learn that just because you want a job doesn't mean that it will be available to you. 

My new journey starts when I leave for Colorado for a month just 17 days from now. Right around the same time the last chapter of my life began a year ago. I understand now that timing is everything, and that things will happen at the exact moment that they are supposed to. One door closes so another can open, would you honestly read a book if it only had one chapter?

People think that when you are in your twenties you should do one of two things; start a family or start an adventure. We are part of a generation who is so lost that we are all just trying to figure out who we want to be. For now, I choose adventure. I have chosen to go out and explore and see what else it out there. Maybe I'll find answers to all of my questions, maybe I wont find anything. But the important thing is that I haven't stopped searching. I haven't given up hope that one day all of the rejections will lead me to something far better than what I had planned on settling for in the first place.