It Is What It Is~ Radical Acceptance

Hot mess express coming through.

I am sTrUgGlInG. but it is what it is. My sponsor tells me that I just need to have some radical acceptance right now. I can’t stand her when she is right.

She is right.

Acceptance is the answer to all (meh, I’d go with most) of my problems. Along with some spiritual guidance from a power greater than me that I choose to call, today, the universe. I say today because honestly, I may call it something different tomorrow. You never know. I just know that connection is there and if I reach out, I can feel it.

Here is what I think about acceptance. I think acceptance is when you just push aside all judgements of whatever the situation is and you take what life gives you knowing that, in the end, or at some point, EVERYTHING will be ok. It is what it is… that’s what I have been saying lately. One of my all time favorite friends of mine likes to often tell me that I tend to automatically go to the worst case scenario. Like count on me to believe that my dog will die when he goes to get his anal glands squeezed. Seriously. I have witnesses. So acceptance is letting go of all the extra nonsense that floats in my brain, saying fuck that noise. I think that a lot of happiness in my life has come from those times where I just have walked through life on life terms.

BUT YALL… IT’S 2020. NOTHING IS ACCEPTABLE.

I am a remote teacher who sits in her classroom at school all day long by herself teaching to group of kids on the computer while simultaneously being a freaking clown just to keep my kids attention because REMOTE TEACHING IS HARD. Teaching in general is hard. But here we go… Acceptance is key. I know that I am not alone in how adequate I feel as a teacher right now. I know that things WILL be ok no matter what. I feel like if I can remind myself of that daily and each moment I think of how shitty I feel, then my days in the classroom would probably less lonely, sad, and miserable. So with the help of the universe, doing the next right thing, and accepting life on life terms, I think I should be ok.

Anyways, I believe that I do need to have some radical acceptance right now and realize that I am doing the very best that I can do. So that’s that.

TTYL