Acceptance

Acceptance is not giving in or giving up. It’s recognizing your experiences, your environment, your challenges, your gifts and your gaps without regret or judgment. Acceptance does not render life fair or just. It offers a recognition of the realities of one’s life.

When we accept life as it is, we relinquish efforts to control the uncontrollable and focus on the moment and what is, instead of what should or shouldn’t be.  Accepting who we are and who we are not enhances our ability to understand where we fit in the landscape of life and to live and hopefully thrive without regret.

If you keep running into a brick wall as fast as you can and the end result is bodily pain over and over again, acceptance would suggest this is absolutely a bad idea and continuing without some adjustment will only offer more pain. Perhaps a ladder over the wall or a boost from a friend would suffice?

Facing the persistent roadblocks and pitfalls ADHD offers without seeking assistance or a boost over that wall is acceptance of what is rather than what can be.

You know what really wise people say, when life gives you lemons, sell lemonade.