[OC] Dealing with rejection.

OLD COMIC.

Dealing with rejection was one of the hardest things (at least for me), because whenever I got rejected (it can be by a group of people, a class project, a job etc) I kept asking myself, where do I go wrong? Why am I like that, why they don't like me? Am I a s#itty person? Are my skills not enough? And things like that. I think rejection of any kind is dangerous for the self-esteem and for a person in general. And I know, it's not people's fault or employer's fault because you don't match their standards or whatever, or there are cases when people just want to be left alone, but it still sucks. For more than 3 years I "left" my friends and I closed myself in my room to constantly draw and improve my skills (i still have a long way to go), because I couldn't even draw a leg before the lockdown, so I was pretty much isolated there. When I got a bit good at art, I got a job as an illustrator and I moved to the city and no matter how hard I tried to make friends, to meet people, to talk to new people it wasn't enough, because I always felt like I was a stress?for them, so I kinda stopped. That made me close myself even more and my social skills are pretty much gone now, hahahah. I’m forever grateful to my coworkers tho, they are amazing people and to my very close 4 friends; it’s enough for me now and I’m not seeking into being a part of other people groups anymore. I learned that if there's not gonna be, it won't..be, no matter how "hard" you try to get close to them. And I learned that sometimes things just don't work, and some people might not work together, and that's fine, we move on.