How To Handle Rejection...Kinda

If you wanna read an actual guide on how to get past rejection, check out this post right here...for now enjoy this story from my past that still haunts me to this day, jokes lol...

Hey friends, glad to be talking to y’all sooner rather than later. So this is a story I’ve definitely told here before, but I was reminded of it while talking to a coworker and I started dying lol that and the girl in this story is getting married this weekend so I thought it’d be jokes to take a stroll down memory lane...so if y’know, y’know...if you don’t, then happy reading. So let’s rewind to a time in my life when I was a hella corny young boy, or at least cornier than I am right now. This is probably some time in high school, I was really close with this one girl. I’m talking like we shared a dope connection, I could see her face and know that something was wrong. Random tidbit, I was very cordial and friendly with her dad cuz he was a super chill guy. Anyways, so as time passed and our friendship deepened like any immature young boy, I started to develop feelings for her. Or at least wonder to myself if I saw her as more than a friend. So her birthday was coming up and I was like alright, let’s confess my feelings by writing her a card, but not just that but a poem inside the card. The card was probably like half the size of a Bristol board...hella extra, you bet LOL. So I remember biking to her house, dropping the card off and dipping hella fast. Didn’t even bother ringing the doorbell cuz I didn’t wanna risk her dad opening it and being like yo what’re you doing here LOL. So have you ever done something then instantly regretted it? Yeah that was me to the highest degree. I biked home, took my jacket off and was like yoooooo what did you just do? Nonetheless like any naive young boy, I waited for a response, and waited, and waited. Take in she didn’t say a word to me for a good like 3-6 months...the number slips my mind...but 3-6 months LOOOOL. So me being stubborn but also plain stupid...I don’t think I bothered reaching out cuz in my head I was like I guess she’s not bout it. But also in my head I was probs like well shouldn’t she respond in some sort of capacity. Essentially we just stopped talking and stopped being friends for that period of time lol. A lot happened in between that time but I’m too lazy to get into it. I just remember we somewhat got back onto talking terms and she texted me one day and was like oh btw I never got the chance to thank you for the card. For context, this was a good 6+ months after I had given her the card and we stopped talking and stuff LOL. Like how does that make sense fam? So fast forward to a few years down the road and we’re not really close friends but more like chill acquaintances, she brought it up one time and was like maaaaaan remember that time you wrote me that card for my birthday and stuff? She’s like it was soooo corny, I called my best friends and we laughed about it. In my head I was like damn that’s harsh, but I get it it was corny, but I like chuckled and was like bruh...then she like added in oh it was cute tho...LOOOOL. It’s funny cuz now I can fully laugh at myself and joke about it cuz I can’t believe how dumb I was back then, but ain’t that all of us? It’s cool now tho, we’re still friends, very cordial and like I said she’s getting married and I’m going to her wedding this weekend. So it all worked out for the best...right? LOOOOL right.

Catch Up

Hey friends,

Wow, it’s been while...but honestly it hasn’t really felt like it lol. It’s been almost 3 weeks since my last post, tbh I’ve been busy with work for one but I’ve also just been unmotivated and there hasn’t been much to talk about. Well actually I guess there has since it’s been so long, but a big part is just being unmotivated I guess and not really feeling it. Like these past 3 weeks of not putting out a post, tbh I didn’t really notice it. And I guess that’s both a good and a bad thing. But this is called catch up because I wanna catch y’all up on what I’ve been doing and what I’ve been learning. For the most part it’s just been work, work consumes so much of my time and I love and I hate that. I hate that I’ve been so busy that it’s hard to find time for family and friends and that I’ve had to drop a lot of responsibilities at church and stuff. I hate that I don’t have much time to myself or to do little things like go to the gym, play basketball or visit my old teacher. I love that I’ve become super disciplined in trying to sleep earlier in order to wake up for my early shifts. I love that I’ve been grinding and really working hard that my days off and free time feel well deserved. I’m super happy and thankful for this opportunity because I know that’s exactly what it is. I’ve been blessed with this opportunity and I’m glad that most of my coworkers are hella jokes and chill cuz if not it would make work terrible. One thing for sure is that seeing my coworker so often reminds me how important it is to have friends outside of work, to have a support system outside of work cuz as much as I love my coworkers, I have this one coworker where we’re both like yo we just need some time to ourselves and with our own friends LOL. Being at work has taught my how important it is to get along with people on a professional level, whether you like them or not. But also just in general how important it is to get along with people to make things smoother and better overall for both parties. Aside from work, my days off are spent either chilling and relaxing or going out with friends or family. I’m always conflicted with wanting to spend my days off sleeping or watching Netflix but I’m also like well I haven’t seen my family or friends in a while so maybe I should go out lol. Being at work had also reinforced to me how important it is to find enjoyment in your work. I would hate to wake up everyday dreading to go to work and repeating that same cycle every single day. I’m happy to be able to have good conversations with a lot of my coworkers about sports, music or even our personal lives lol. I’ve been thinking about the future of the blog as of late and just the future in general, what I wanna do with my life and all. December’s gonna be the 9 year anniversary of this blog...this year also marks an all time low number of posts on this blog. Like the number of posts per year has been dropping since like 2011, but the content and quality has always still been there. This year, I dunno whether y’all realize it or not but there’s only been 37 (well now 38) posts for this year so far. Like in my head I’m just like wow I’ve been hella slacks/hella busy/hella unmotivated or whatever it is...but all that just has me seriously wondering what I wanna do with this blog moving forward. But enough of that lol, that’s what’s been going on in my life and in my head as of late...hope to see you sooner rather than later, peace.

Let The Good Times Roll Part 2

Hey friends, it’s been a while...so funny story, I had actually written a post yesterday but didn’t like how it turned out so decided not to post at all, my bad. But to repeat some of what I said...I’ve met a lot of new people in the past few months...through work, sports and just life. So I figured I’d give some brief introductions...my name is Rodmond, I go by RT as well...that among other names as well lol. This is my blog and simply put its a place of expression, honest and vulnerability. I’ll leave it at that, if you journey with me you’ll definitely learn a lot about what I and this blog are about.

So yeah...it’s definitely been a very busy and somewhat stressful few months as of late. Free time has definitely been scarce and time management has become such an important aspect of my life lately. Work has consumed so much of my time that I’ve been trying to juggle family, friends, church, me-time and whatever else in the limited amount of time that I have when I’m not at work. So here’s a compilation of picture that make me really happy, that remind me and bring me back to some real good times in my life throughout these past few years. Feel free to check out part 1 while you’re at it as well.

Let The Good Times Roll Part 1