ACCEPTANCE

     Cackle, cackle. Peck, peck. Those are the chickens of yesterday who came home to roost. Their return must be accepted as so many other things in life. But there is a difference in acceptance depending upon the item or the event or the decision or the knowledge.
     So the voters of Trump all pointed out that they could not vote for Hillary because she stuck it out with Bill. Uh huh. Ok. People's choice, but, a major big but - what now? Why has Melania stuck it out with this a-hole who so publicly and blatantly was so unfaithful to her and to his vows? Over this they say nothing. But, my friends, it is the same difference, except that Trump is ever so much worse!!
      So how do we know that it is not good to accept something but then turn around and accept it in another? Hypocrisy does answer that question. Wrongful acceptance describes the situation. Willful blindness says it all.
     I am of two minds about the new All in the Family return. I watched the original and loved the brashness but must admit that I am a bit leery of having Roseanne spout off about Trump support on national TV. It just goes against the grain - but, it does show the split that this has engendered amongst families and friends. So do we accept that split? Do we talk about it? Or do we meet it with silence and suddenly the personal discussion of politics is verboten? Confusing, is it not?
     I am personally frustrated beyond belief when once smart and thinking people continue to state that Trump is just different and needs to be accepted. NO! Not so! He is different in that he has no morals, no values other than himself and his needs and his money. Period. He speaks of his daughter in sexual terms and times, nauseating, to say the least, and majorly degenerate and twisted, and totally ignores his other daughter, Tiffany, and she is the lucky one.
     The same situation in differing degrees elsewhere. Do we accept David Israel here in CV as entrenched for Life? He certainly thinks so and gets very upset when he is questioned. What about when we have an abusive boss, or an abusive board, or nasty neighbors? Do we just accept that too as one of life's tribulations and shut up? I think not. We just need to defend ourselves and speak up for ourselves carefully and in that way win the battle. When we let things go too far, we have the present situation in the world today with Russia and Putin thinking they can do anything and everything without consequence and even with cheering and the nasties on the right thinking their time has come again and was it not oh so clever of them to stab to death yet another aged Jewish woman in France, a Holocaust survivor who succumbed to yet another act of anti Semitism. This, this horrendous movement and act cannot ever be accepted. Never ever!
     And what about health. What about a diagnosis that truly upsets life, upends it beyond all chance of total return. Do we just accept that and lay down to die, to give up the fight? I understand when the pain is too much, the air totally lacking in any hope for improvement or life of any consequence and that should then be the person's private wish. But what about when there is time between sentence and execution of said sentence? What then?
   What then is to fight with all one's might. Yes, one is allowed to fight what one was told, disbelieve, feel depressed, totally anxious beyond words, engage in a massive state of disbelief but then one has to accept and find another path of life. Yes, it is different from the previous one. Yes, it is a blow. But yes, it is also a doorway into other experiences, some of them so blessed and so good that it restores one's faith in humanity and the future. Fight, fight even as one accepts the situation. I can state this because I know whereof I speak. I can state this because I am living this. And if this helps even one person to move along in this new path, then I have indeed paid it forward and I can accept that.
     So, no. I will never accept that Trump is my president or that he needs to remain in office. I will never accept the new wave of fascism that threatens the world and that has crept into our own blessed country. And I will accept a diagnosis, with sadness, but will accept and then find a way of dealing with it. For such is life. Sometimes the acceptances are hard and sometimes not. Anyone for a piece of chocolate? For that I can accept anytime, anywhere! Seriously, in the midst of all this agony, personal and worldwide, we can always find something to celebrate and we should for otherwise life is just not what we are making of it.