Rejected not Dejected

You put hours and hours into writing a story and then it gets rejected.
It feels like a gut punch, and it saddens and pisses you off for a while.
It may even ruin your day.
You wrote that story for a purpose.
You didn’t write it to get published.

Rather because there was a story to be told.
The same can be said for a drawing or a painting.

Don Henley is trite, yet still

So you can get on with your search, baby
And I can get on with mine
Maybe someday we will find
That it wasn’t really wasted time