Rejection can be very difficult to work through. At one point in our lives we've faced rejection, and if you haven't faced it yet, it will come. Whenever we experience anything for the first time, it leaves a heavy imprint on us. This is because the feelings we internalize from those experiences either confirm or deny what we believe about ourselves and the world. If the experience was positive, we're naturally inclined to move towards it again, as we want to feel that feeling again. However, being rejected can make us question our worth. That's an extremely intense emotional trigger, so it's understandable why it would put someone in a state of fear, causing them to respond in whatever way it is they do when their fear is brought to the surface. The thing with rejection, similarly to everything we experience, is that whatever it stirs up in us is catalyzed by the meaning WE assign to it. So, if being rejected does make you question what you’re worth, it presents you with a grand opportunity to ask yourself why that's the case and if you want to let it have that kind of power over you.