Does it ever get easier to handle rejection?

Recently, I was talking to a writer friend about submitting and he said to me: “I’ve been submitting, but, well, you know how it is. The rejections grind you down.”

And I was like, “No, no, after awhile they’re not as bad anymore. When you first get a certain kind of rejection--the one where the editor holds it for twice as long as normal or the one wher…