How can you be happy with what you have?

For some of us, this might be a hard question to answer. Every one of us has a different position about the topic. In my previous blog entry, I talked about how a person should be happy with what he/she has, but I forgot to recognize and point out the different ways on how we can make use of our own wonderful assets and our positive features. I know it can be hard sometimes to acknowledge our assets, but we must learn how to do this in order to really accept ourselves. Self-acceptance for me is the ability to love and embrace yourself. It’s not the same as being vain. It’s just knowing that you are an important and powerful individual, and being able to recognize that.

“One must have the adventurous daring to accept
oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake
the most interesting game in the world, making
the most of one’s best.”
– Harry Emerson Fosdick

I thought this quote was really good. It pretty much wraps up the whole meaning of self-acceptance. For me, it means one should have enough courage to accept and discover the unexpected things that one has. I like the part when he says to undertake the most interesting game in the world, making the most of one’s best. It made me realize that it’s not easy to be able to recognize who we really are, and it is big accomplishment when we finally discover the best that lies deep down inside each and every one of us.