I was interviewing someone today and the word “acceptance” came up in the natural course of our conversation. She said it’s part of acceptance of things being what they are and moving on. At the same time, I received an email from a friend who was going to adopt a child and decided at the last minute to give it some more thought. And in yet another conversation, Katrina as the force of life change came up.
There really is no point in trying to figure out why anymore. Why did my life journey head in this direction instead of another? Why didn’t this person change with me, so that we might be together today? Why did I gain so much while others lost a lot?
Accept what is and move on. Histrionics will not gain you any more clarity than that. Embrace anger and then let it go before it becomes bitterness – a most unflattering trait.
It’s more valuable to say now – you can’t go back and move any of the chess pieces around, you can only move them forward, so with the players on the board in this particular arrangement, what’s your next move?