Accepting that it is, as it is, is not to like or agree.
Rather it is our willingness to accept that life has its disagreeable periods when we wish it were not so.
“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How we respond to life's troubling moments speaks to our free choice never to allow matters beyond our control, to take control of our life.
Many years ago when I started taking martial arts lessons my teacher, a seventy years old semi-retired missionary to the Maasai people (1) in East Africa encouraged me never to assume that insults, and abuse should justify a similar response. Exercising control of our responses to life's more challenging moments sets us apart from those who permit another to take control of our/their actions, or reactions as if to say, my antagonist has become my puppeteer.
Our adversaries also assume the role of our teachers, by coaching us how not to respond when faced with the thought, should I react according to their determination to instruct me to follow their example.
Patience is a wise tutor never lost on the pupil acknowledging that they have much to learn.
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”― Leo Tolstoy
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maasai_people
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