A rejection email read alone at night feels final. Read it again in daylight before you decide what it means.
STILLNESS
WHAT THIS MEANS
Bad news read late at night with nobody around arrives at its maximum strength. Tiredness narrows your thinking, the dark strips away any other context, and a short message about one decision by one person swells into a statement about your whole future. The words will be identical in the morning. Your ability to read them properly will not be.
When something like that lands at night, read it once and put it down until daylight. Reply the next day, after food, with somebody nearby if that helps. Decide what it means when you are at full strength.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Which piece of bad news did you read too late at night?
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