Acceptance.

What do you think about when you hear the word acceptance? Does your mind automatically jump to the conclusion of accepting different races, nationalities, religions or even sexual preference?

No, I'm talking about a much broader outlook on the term, the acceptance of us and others around us,  even situations that we can't control. I personally like to help even when I'm not asked and accepting the things that we can't control at face value can be a challenge for all of us.

In life, we are told to do this or to be that way and are molded by our parents to be either in their image in the image that sets us for the life that they want us to have. While we have to give them praise for trying because as a parent myself my own desire is that my kids always strive for greatness and never have to settle for anything less than the heights they hold themselves to. But, only we can give ourselves credit, we chose who we want to be, and what we want to do, our parents might be the sculptures but our expressions and personal drive are what fuels us into who we are.  Accepting ourselves for who we are is a major step in life and of that only we can bring ourselves to love ourselves. Sure, we have friends, peers, and our families to help guide our paths but at the end of the day, every decision that we make is ours. As we enter early adulthood from our teenage years we start to discover ourselves and who we want to be, but let me assure you that is a continued process even though our late years because as individuals we constantly expand our horizons and our personal meanings. So when we accept ourselves for every aspect that makes us happy we have to take into consideration that with the acceptance we must value the change in life. Whether that change brings us into a deeper mature version of ourselves or takes us down a path that expands our sense of self, change is not always a bad thing with a  one-eyed view. Accepting not only who we are, as people is great but having that deeper understanding and accepting others is brilliant. It does not matter who the person is or their backgrounds it should only matter about who that person is today, who do they strive to be in their future. I've seen so much hate and dislike, yes, usual racism because of a fear, a fear of what? I'll tell you humans are scared of what they do not know, the unknown is like stepping into freezing cold water. It;s an internalized fear that guess what you can get over, but the populace fuels the hate and the hate stirs war and violence because the color of one's skin is seen as just that, a color, it is not inspected for the story it tells, a face is not categorized by the number of laugh lines present showing the livelihood that a person has lived. It doesn't examine to show the happiness, the pain. It doesn't inspect the scars from the past that have led to that person's future.Instead.. I'll tell you it is blinded by the color, the color that is designed beautifully not to be discriminated but to take the meaning of beauty and expand it beyond any horizon. Simple minds lead to simple judgments and those judgments do not allow acceptance
Think about it.


Thanks,
Maddie