Do you think acceptance is hard to find? Do you think that finding the people that actually like you is hard? Do you buy into people’s crap that you have to smoke, drink and do drugs just to be cool?
Acceptance is one of the hardest things to find if you’re looking for the right kind of acceptance. You may look for pretty girls or hot boys so that you have some form of gratification so that you feel good about yourself!
Do you look for acceptance in smoking? Doing drugs or drinking alcohol at the local pub?
Let me tell you this, that isn’t where you find acceptance! You find acceptance in people that you can actually trust. You may say, “Well the people I trust go out drinking at the pub every night, they’re always there for me.” Let me tell you this, if they were so trust worthy, they wouldn’t go to the pub every night and get smashed, they wouldn’t be addicted to alcohol going home to families every night drunk. Instead they’d stay sober and they wouldn’t trash there lives away with alcohol.
Same goes for drugs, drugs screw your life up, they don’t get you know where! Most drug dealers carry some sort of weapon, they’re generally dangerous and work in packs, and do you want to be hanging around in this sort of environment? One that could make you die sooner than you could’ve?
I want to tell you now, there are good people out there, ones that will take the caring and loving side of you, there are people that won’t bully you and won’t make some joke out of you, you just have to search and look in the right places.
All throughout school I was always looking for acceptance, how do I mix in? How would I ever earn friends?
Everyone bullied me; I would sometimes come home and cry to my parents, I really didn’t know how to cope.
I got myself into a fair amount of trouble getting suspended at least once a year if not twice and I didn’t understand why.
I thought resorting to violence would be the answer, being the “cool” kid but it turned out I was not as cool as I thought I was, I was more rebellious than cool.
I thought trying to be that tough kid would actually earn me some friends; I mean it seemed to me the only reason why the other students had friends is because they were “cool.”
I got to high school and continued to stuff up my life, I still was trying to hurt people doing all the immature crap you can think of but it never got me anywhere.
This all changed in year 9.
I realized the right kind of acceptance is only given when you give the right kind of acceptance.
If you put one good potato in a soup and one bad, the whole soup will be bad.
You have to be the difference maker; you have to change your ways to be the accepting and forgiving person that you’re meant to be!
If you show what you’re all about people will see the difference and I can tell you, they will recognize what a real friendly loving hearted person is all about.
