“Acceptance is not love, you love those with lovable traits, you accept everyone because they’re alive and human.” Sounds like something cliche your parents would say to get along with others at school. However, this is a quote from Albert Ellis, a psychologist famous for developing the Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy theory. So some smart guy says to accept everyone, why should we? When it comes to human beings, different things seem to be good, different food, different clothes, what makes people an exception to this belief? For all self-purposes, having someone different in your life could do so much for you. The strange or the unknown could help expand your mindset, oppose your beliefs and understandings, and let's not forget most importantly,
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I thought they had a headache, or maybe tired, something quite common for kids our age. So I ignored it, and let them do their thing. But then it happened again, a few weeks later, and again not long after that. It made them into somewhat of a nuisance, I felt compelled to ignore them because they’d just drain me of my mood, sometimes I actually did. It was the confrontation that had led me to their acceptance. It was a much rash event, however, this was not in my control, they actually came up to me and ask, if we were still friends. At this moment, a sudden realization struck me. The importance of questioning your actions. I shut a human being out of my life, for a reason I had not yet fully understood. I would have known if only I had asked myself, why am I doing this? I know now, they explained to me that it was something they had no control of, something nurtured into their mind and it’s part of them. If I wanted to be a true friend or just a respectable human being, then I have to accept that this what they were. Medicine could only suppress what they had for so long, sometimes therapy and moral support was much better treatment. All in all, Acceptance would help them more than it would me, but I would keep a close friend and a clean
I thought they had a headache, or maybe tired, something quite common for kids our age. So I ignored it, and let them do their thing. But then it happened again, a few weeks later, and again not long after that. It made them into somewhat of a nuisance, I felt compelled to ignore them because they’d just drain me of my mood, sometimes I actually did. It was the confrontation that had led me to their acceptance. It was a much rash event, however, this was not in my control, they actually came up to me and ask, if we were still friends. At this moment, a sudden realization struck me. The importance of questioning your actions. I shut a human being out of my life, for a reason I had not yet fully understood. I would have known if only I had asked myself, why am I doing this? I know now, they explained to me that it was something they had no control of, something nurtured into their mind and it’s part of them. If I wanted to be a true friend or just a respectable human being, then I have to accept that this what they were. Medicine could only suppress what they had for so long, sometimes therapy and moral support was much better treatment. All in all, Acceptance would help them more than it would me, but I would keep a close friend and a clean