I tried to submit some photos to Shutterstock recently. Key word being "tried". Over two dozen photos submitted, and they were all rejected. It is frustrating and saddening to endure rejection like this (or rejection at all, really). I look at this and say, "I am doing my best." Unfortunately, my best simply is not good enough. Now what?
I find myself drifting, wondering, uncertain. It is a common fear that you try your best, give it your all, only to come up lacking; a common - yet devastating - "what if" scenario. This is not that. This is not some hypothetical situation. The situation has come and gone, and I wasn't good enough.
It is easy to say that you did your best or tried your hardest. Too easy, really. (How many people say this falsely, I wonder? Too many, I suspect.) What is also too easy to say is that if you really had done your best, then you would not have failed.
Earlier, at work, I was placed on a spot on the line I have not worked in a long time (several months, at least). I did my best to do a good job, while also trying to keep up with those around me, but as time wore on, I fell behind. It was small at first, but it grew and grew, to the point where one of my co-workers stepped in and switched places with me.
He was faster and was able to clear out the backlog I had built up in a matter of minutes.
Sometimes that's just how it is. No matter how hard you try, it isn't good enough, and there is someone else who is way better at it than you are. So, what then? Well, if I had an answer to that, then I wouldn't be writing all this...
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In case anyone is interested, here is a link to my Shutterstock portfolio: https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Russell+of+WI?rid=198932326
(Fair warning, I don't have that many pictures, and they aren't that great.)
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