Daily Handbasket: What if the Rejection Beast Isn’t a Beast at All?

My idea of the Rejection Beast (photo by the author)

 

This is what my idea of the Rejection Beast looks like. Sharp-clawed and powerful. Enigmatic, fearsome, yet oddly charismatic. Decorated with gold, and rather magnificent. This is the beast we encounter whenever we choose to live in the world instead of hide from it. The Rejection Beast, always slavering, loves to gamble with us. Sometimes we win and part ways with it, for a time. We always meet again, unless we give up completely. But we...