rejection

after rejection

after rejection.

he was good at acting anyways, so he accepted each one with a smile as bright as his starting state. at the beginning he didn't have to struggle to push his lips upward through the problem, but he gradually had to work harder to conceal how disheartened he was.

he received jeers from his classmates, who told him to give up and make way for those who'd actually be pleasing to look at.

unlike him.

people couldn't have it all, but it was better to have received none rather than just one that couldn't work alone.

like receiving a leg but no pair to have them walk,

like being told to eat with chopsticks properly but getting only one which you'd have no choice but to use as a primitive skewer in the end.

a spider with no web, a moth with no wings.

futile.