The more it happened, the less I cried.
Now? I'm just uncomfortably numb.
I remember once though, I shook while hugging a near stranger. She asked why the shaking. I couldn't reply back.
How does one explain multiple rejections, in the moment of being close? All the past disappointments. Knowing that the disappointment of rejection will happen once again.
The shaking was the only the consequence of knowing you are going to be rejected for whatever reason they have.
Yes, that person did reject me after a couple of weeks. Never saw them again.