Acceptance of Acceptance

When we willingly accept a person into our lives, we should consider accepting them for who they are, instead of fruitlessly trying to get that person to change their behaviors. We should stop trying to get that person to see it or do it our way in that all or nothing manner we can easily lapse into. When that happens, it’s no longer about, “… if we are right, then they must be wrong…” It becomes about our own inner conflict: Acceptance of what we accept, and who we’ve willingly accepted into our lives and why.