Everyone yearns to be liked, and everyone enjoys having positive remarks said about them. However, someone suggested that 10 percent of the people whom we’re around every day don’t like us. We’ve all certainly experienced spoken or unspoken rejection at one time or another. So, how do we respond to this negativity? When someone expresses disapproval of our actions or ideas, our feelings often get hurt; and we may then feel rejected. These feelings of rejection lead us to focus more on ourselves and less on others, resulting in a pity party. Suddenly, we find ourselves attending this party alone—the victim of our own thoughts. We must learn to view disapproval by others, not as a rejection of us personally, but as a difference of opinion regarding a particular view or action. It’s normal to disagree. We cannot concur with everything others do or say, nor can they always see eye to eye with us. But we can agree to disagree. Recognizing the truth that the rejection of our opinions, ideas, or actions is not a rebuff of us personally is a very liberating concept. We must stop attending pity parties and join the rest of the imperfect people who are enjoying life.