Why Not Getting What You Want Isn’t Acceptable

Rejection emails can blast through the late night with the same severity a sunny blue sky can muster, when you can at least day drink the disappointment away with some help from the comical goriness of Santa Clarita Diet.

But when it’s past your bedtime, and you were still filtering through the daily luxuries of friends and friendly strangers on Instagram, with the ill-fated final glance at your over-cluttered inbox, that best resembles your present state-of-affairs, the only thing to do after you internalize what you predicted because “life be like that most of the time” is to revert back to when phones weren’t the last thing you caressed before lights out.

Not getting what you want isn’t acceptable in this era of influencers and their worshippers, who truly believe they don’t need trust funds in order to replicate the meteoric rise of their privileged and fickle mentors.

We’re constantly bombarded with imagery that showcases how living your #bestlife is as seamless as sending request emails to pricey lodgings in exotic locales, that feature backdrops that will drive your fanbase wild with envy as soon as #selfies splatter timelines with hashtags, that solidify your entry into the club that is anything but exclusive.