Dear PNM's and their moms

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by aephi alum

I have to agree that young people these days have very little experience with rejection or failure. It used to be that kids would get their first taste of rejection, say, when they were 7 years old and weren't picked for their local Little League team, or when they were 12 years old and weren't picked for the school choir. Now "everyone's a winner" and the first time these young people run into rejection is when they go through NPC recruitment and a chapter cuts them.

This post made me try to think of my first rejection moment. Pretty sure it was 2nd grade Christmas play. I didn't get to be the North Star in the sky who guided the Wisemen. I was crushed for about 5 minutes. lol. But yeah, it was early.