Acceptance

Acceptance- The moment when you realize that you are complete.

The world is full of appearances; laws and rules that everyone needs to be accepted. Multi-billion dollar industries have been created in an effort to display an ‘alter-persona’ of ourselves, our real selves being personalities with less desirable traits or traits that are not popular enough. Selves that have real underlying issues, we hide them from the world as we are the only ones with issues, as if we are the only ones with skeletons in our closets.

Or maybe it is just so we can get ahead because someone told us that only the good looking or the people with smooth, amiable personalities get the best opportunities and the best of what life has to offer. But at what point does keeping up appearances move from just an appearance for the play to full out lying to ourselves? The skeletons in our closet still remain. I guess we forget what true acceptance feels like. So we keep on toiling day and night to get included in the fold. To make sure that our reputation is that of a “cool” person who is good to all and strive so hard to make sure strangers love and accept us.

We go through that circus but alas! in the 11th hour we shall realize that the only thing that matters is self-acceptance.

Hence, Acceptance; the moment when you realize you are complete.