Well, hello, again...
Acceptance. It's a funny thing really. I mean, who really knows what it truly means to 'accept' something. We always get told to 'accept' people for who they are, 'accept' your own body, 'accept' the consequences of your actions. But I wonder what that means?
When I walked down the road, I was stared at, looked up and down, and was made to feel incredibly self conscious. Is that acceptance?
Hashtags on Insta promoting weight loss, and clean eating. Is that acceptance?
I would love someone to write a book on what acceptance really is. Because I guarantee it would express it in a completely different way to you and I!
That's the problem. It's personal, subjective. No one can define it, for everyone. It's like telling someone with colour blindness that the chair they see as red is most definitely orange and they are utterly stupid. No. They are not. That is THEIR opinion. And therefore, it is RIGHT! Just because you think it is orange, who's to say that it's not coral, or salmon pink, or crimson?
I think that if people were more open to difference, and less self-absorbed, then maybe this world could accept... well...that acceptance is purely personal.
I wonder if anyone has ever pondered this as much as I have? Or if anyone has ever mulled it over at all? I could be classed as an individual in that respect. But would you accept that? It's funny, isn't it?
Think about it. If the world spent less time criticising, and more time accepting people's acceptance, well, there'd certainly be less time to plan the next insult. Would there not?
I would love to be able to appreciate everything in the world. The beauty of the fields. The buzz of the cities. The drifting of the clouds. But, I simply don't. But it doesn't mean I do not accept it. It just means I don't appreciate it.
If appreciation is knowing and acceptance is believing, then why can't we share a belief? Share an opinion? Join a community of appreciating, believing and knowing? Because then, are we not a community of accepting?
Think on it!!
Til' next time, I'm going to continue appreciating in my own little unconventional way.
Unconventionalism xx
