I only know that the reason why I fear rejection is because I've gone many days, sometimes even weeks or months, on end without any friends. As in, no one in my class would talk to me just because of things like:
I didn't like Power Rangers
I didn't listen to the Backstreet Boys, Jars of Clay, P.O.D. or whichever group was in vogue at the time.
I also once got hated by everyone because of a time when three guys were spraying bug spray into another friend's eyes. Two were holding the guy down and the third was spraying. I gave that guy a punch and told him to stop, and we started brawling. And at the end of the fight, the three guys hated me and told everyone else not to talk to me (they were the most popular guys at the time), and the guy I helped LOATHED me because I stopped them from "accepting" him into their group. |
