Hey everyone!

How is the week treating you?

I’m in a chaotic and stressful week: it’s the last week of the NaNoWriMo challenge, and I’m about to win it this year… Very exciting, but also slightly terrifying to think I’ll have written 50,000 words for a novel!

Anyway, I was having a conversation with one of my best friends on whatsapp earlier, and we talked about approaching people we find attractive, and how difficult it is… Some of you that know me personally will realise this is a topic I’m focused on these days!

It’s amazing the amount of barriers we build ourselves! We fail at it even before we try it! Many people have different ways of flirting, from a “how ya doin’?” to a whole range of elaborate strategies and techniques…

However, no matter what your style is, chances are at some point or another you’ve been rejected (if you haven’t, great! but let me tell you, you’re about to…) It might have been ok, or it might have been devastating… Truth is if you put yourself out there, you put yourself at risk, so rejection might happen.

Still, life goes on and all that, and someone attractive comes along, and you think of trying again… So hey, it’s not such a big deal, is it? But something inside might say: don’t, what if they don’t like you and they reject you?

Scary words… Especially coming from within your own self.

We tend to blow things out of proportion in our minds, and for that reason, during this conversation, I told my friend I had started compiling a list, just to put some perspective back into the game.

Before I realised it, she was contributed to the list with her own suggestions!

Some of them are serious, some of them are very funny…

1. Illness
2. Losing your home
3. Losing your job
4. Losing an arm
5. Losing a close relative
6. Paper cut
7. Getting lost in the bad part of town
8. Spiders
9. Getting blind
10. Poor children in Africa
11. Fighting with your best friend
12. Zombies
13. Burning yourself with frying oil
14. Chopping onions
15. Having no money at the beginning of the month
16. Smelly feet
17. Hangovers
18. Bad wine
19. Bad breath
20. Migraines
21. Painful periods
22. Missing the last train
23. (Other people’s) Farts
24. Cucumbers
25. Smell of rotten
26. Finding there’s no hot water… too late
27. Gastroenteritis
28. Sleazy perverts in a bar
29. A bad kiss
30. Bad sex
31. Flu
32. Trying to cut a steak with a blunt knife
33. Falling off your snowboard
34. Falling off a chairlift
35. Going out of the toilets with your skirt tucked in your tights
36. Having a red stain on your white trousers
37. Feeling sick at work
38. Sex with a sumo fighter
39. Eating a scorpion
40. Sand in your bikini
41. Finding the perfect pair of shoes… just not in your size
42. Walking barefoot on stones
43. Stepping on a lego
44. Gangnam Style
45. Gordon Brown in Speedos
46. Comb overs
47. Fake tan
48. Duck faces
49. Camel toes
50. Hitting your little toe with the coffee table’s leg

See? There are plenty of things that can be worse than a rejection, so next time you want something, be it asking that great guy/girl out, or talk to your boss about a pay rise you want, or anything similar, think about all the things in this list, and go for it!

What are your things worse than a rejection?