Acceptance

I think we spend most of our lives searching for acceptance. Some are lucky enough to find that acceptance in their parents, siblings, teachers, friends,  spouses, children, even pets. Some of us are left wondering where we belong? Where we fit? Who can we crawl to and feel completely accepted for all our flaws, all our mistakes, all our short comings? Who can we embrace and detect no animosity, no judgment? 

I have been searching for that acceptance my whole life...some days I find it quite easily. Some days it seems so far out of reach that the memory of a time when I felt appreciated, accepted, welcomed, seems like a distant, vague dream. 

I think the point of all this is to not find that acceptance in others but to somehow find it in yourself. That's my goal. That's what this journey is all about. Someday I know I will reach it. Someday...but not today...