24 Hours of Le Mans, 2011. Benoit Treluyer is piloting the only Audi R18 in contention after the other 2 had crashed out. He was being held up by the Renault #8 car, which was essentially a lap down from the leader, but playing spoiler to lone, vulnerable Audi. With the Renault #7 breathing down his neck, Treluyer was in a jam. He could take this lying down by simply trying to hold it off, but that would mean going quietly into the night. Or dawn, by the time the drama had played itself out.

Not him, not in this instance. Coming out of Arnage into the Porches curves, he lined up the Audi, carried some extra speed, and made his move. It was his moment of truth, and he met it audaciously. Using a Corvett as a buffer, he went around the outside of both it and the Renault #8, and cut sharply back in front of both them.

It was a clean and perfect pass. One of the top 10 passes ever at the Le Mans Circuit de la Sarthe. Now the hunt truly begins for him--for the leading number 9 Renault, for the lead, and for eventual 2011 Le Mans title.

It inspired me to write this post about rejection, and how we all should look at it. To win this title, Treluyer and his teammates had to filter through hundreds of car in traffic. Some were quick, some were drawn out battles, but ultimately, how they dealt with each situation ultimately determined their level of success. In the search for our titles, our happiness, we should look at rejections as simply that--traffic.

We were all taught to be distraught, reeling, and emotionally destroyed after each rejection. However, this is simply based on a set of beliefs that are not true. Rejection is a wonderful thing that lets us know when to move on, to stop wasting our time, and to get ever closer to that title. Yes, some will feel like absolute high speed crashes, but that's only based on our fucked up feelings and emotions, which we can control. Either way, we have to get back in the race. The speed of which we recover from these crashes, and of which we can filter through traffic, has an absolute bearing on the outcome.

Rejection is a double tall shot of Tequila. Some may want to water it down by putting it in some girly drink; but other than giving you a hangover, what would that do in the end? You still have to take it down. Why? Because you and her are not compatible. You weren't meant to be together. You were taking freethrows from half court, and now you are accepting the consequence. Unlike most men out there, you are willing to accept the absolute vulnerability of putting your balls on the line, swallowing the shot down, and walking away like nothing had happened.

So like a racing driver, line up your pass and make your move. Should it be your moment of truth, just do or die, not reason why. And it really is your moment of truth. Are you going to be true to your courage? True to your desire? True to the words that you have told yourself over and over? Or will you let that excuse stop you one more time?

Because in the end, whether she displays interest in return truly doesn't matter. She might be a hit or a dud. She might be in awe or an absolute bitch. You are on your mission to find your girl, and there is a set number of rejections you'd have to go through to get to her. That number is determined by a lot of external factors, but the speed of which you go through them is based on you and you alone. The quicker you can get through them, the better.

And if you are into motorsports like me, then go flat out, full throttle, straight up, all the way to top gear and back again. These backmarkers ain't gonna slow you down.