It took me a while to try coming up with a name for this article. In the end the one I’ve gone with, I feel, makes the most sense. Firstly, I actually think that although it seems like an obvious, redundant statement to ‘’accept life’’ since we really have no choice in the matter, I feel like I’m making more of a philosophical statement rather than a statement of mere fact.
Life can come at you from many different angles. It can kick you in the teeth or it can feel like everything you touch turns to gold. I believe it is imperative that we accept both offerings. We can often ask ourselves ‘why does life keep kicking me in the bollox?’ or ‘why do I never get any luck?’ I think asking those questions is natural, yes. But I don’t think we should dwell on it. Rather accept life for what it is – a chaotic, melodramatic beautiful thing.
The problem with not accepting the bad times is that when the good times eventually come around you will not accept that into your life either. I have been a victim of never accepting a good thing into my life for many years, mainly because I felt as though I didn’t deserve to have said nice things come into my life. But it was only recently when my perception of life and its many offerings, both good and bad. Came into my peripheral vision.
The best thing that could ever happen to a person happened to me. I have finally received a gift from life that is so profound and life-alteringly beautiful that it made me appreciate the bad things in life that I perceived as slights on me and have used as excuses in the past as to why I was so downtrodden and negative all the time as they have led me to this very moment in time in which I feel like the luckiest man in the world. I have never felt these feelings before, in fact I didn’t think it was possible for me to feel them. I’m sure you’re screaming for me to go to a therapist right now and that’s fair. But I will say that if I hadn’t of experienced every bad thing life threw my way to alter my personality to this very moment in time, I doubt I would have accepted this beautiful gift into my life at all.
The point I’m making is this; until you accept every single thing life throws at you as an experience, that may suck ass in the moment and could even be a painful traumatic thing that is very serious and will change you forever no matter what – there will be that one moment, my friend. The one moment in which you look back and say every single thing I have perceived as bad has led me to this point in time, the moment in which I am of such strong character that I can accept this beautiful gift life has given me and not throw it away because you feel you are not worthy of said gift!
Don’t mistake me however, you will face more challenges. Life will keep throwing curveballs, as is its very nature. But isn’t that the beauty of it?
Accepting life as it is does not happen on the flick of a switch, it takes a lot of shit going against you to prepare you for the moment that life turns around and gives you the reason why you’re alive on a silver platter. The only question is do you have what it takes to accept the good thing? Or will you refuse it because life couldn’t possibly go your way for once, could it?
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