4/29 Rejection Cakes Are The Newest Trend In Taking On Disappointment

Listen to Joanna and Sean talk about rejection cakes. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sunny one O six point five. It's Sunny Mornings with
Joanna and Sean. You've probably heard the phrase when life
hands you lemons, make lemonade. Well, some students are instead
heading to the baking aisle. Oh yeah like that. So, Joanna,
you mentioned a second ago that you handle rejection well.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Right, I mean, listen, some situations in my life have
been harder than others, right, Like when you have your
heart and your mind set on something, rejection is tough.
But I read this book once. It was called like
the Pity Party theory, and it was like, you can
allow yourself three days to be like upset about something

(00:38):
and then you need to move on right, any advice
you know, And it was like one of those things.
It's like, Okay, you can throw yourself a pity party,
but like it can't last forever.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Well, I love I love that theory because that is
exactly what a lot of students are doing right now.
It's a new trend with students that are getting rejected
from college because the application process is going on, right,
and the students that are getting rejection letters, they are
making cakes. It's they are rejection cakes. That's a new
trend out there they're baking up sweet treats decorated with

(01:07):
the flags of the schools that said now yes. So
it's like a new kind of therapy, and it's supposed
to take the sting out of it because ultimately it
needs disappointment, right, So think of it like a divorce
party or going out with friends if you didn't get
the promotion. So I wish I had done this because

(01:27):
there have been jobs that I've interviewed for and didn't get,
or the colleges that rejected me too, But I take
those things personally, like I've always I've never been able
to just move on. I dwell on it. So this
is such a great take on this.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
I mean to be honest. As a society, I want
us to see more of this, right, I think especially
with the younger generation. I think as we probably both
have matured, rejection maybe gets a little bit easier. But
when you're young and you have like so much hope
and like the real world hasn't quite fully stung you yet,
like that stuff really does hurt, right, and it leads

(02:03):
people into depression and in different, you know, terrible mindsets.
Like as a society, we need to embrace rejection more
and make it more of a positive thing so we
can move on. And I think it is better for
everybody's mental health overall.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
That's a great point. You know, we talk about mental
health a lot here. We also talk about social media
quite a bit here, and I think as many pitfalls
as there are with social media, I do think it's
opened this younger generation's eyes a lot more to mental
health and working on something. And the idea of a
rejection cake. You can't tell me that didn't come from
social media, absolutely.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
And and listen, we all are our hardest critics too.
So sometimes when you keep that inside, like you project
this situation that's not even fully happening, like you feel embarrassed,
like you feel disappointed, but like if you just opened
yourself up a little bit, like you would realize that
your sport support system would truly.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Rally behind you.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
And I think it's just you know, baking a cake
and sharing it with your friends, Like your friends are
cheering you on by doing that, right, Like they're coming over,
they're enjoying that, they're hyping you up more than you
would do on your own.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
So I love this, yeah, exactly. I mean, anytime life
hands your rejection, you just gotta throw some frosting on
it and move on. That's good to me.