Acceptance: The best yet bitter pill to swallow in life
Kealeboga Ngwigwa | Tuesday September 8, 2026 11:43
The emotional stretch is either negative or positive. It influences our attitudes and ultimately builds the character or brand you are. Acceptance is the best medicine you could trust to propel you to the next new and exciting chapters of your life.
Grace drives us into situations that drain- dry each one of us yet they build us to match greatness destined for each one of us. We turn to experience very excruciating pains, feel very worthless and vulnerable.
It feels like the world is at its end point; the bitter taste of life. Our emotions are proved and accustomed to the negativity presented by the challenge we face.
The situation preaches doom all over your life and indeed it appears to be so. But other reality is that each phase of pain has a limited time span. The pain that can open doors for one is also the pain that can make your life gloomy.
This is all dependant on your ability to accept the situation that unfolds before each one of us. When you have an appetite to accept situations as they come into your life, you will always know that everything happens for your good.
That is a quality of a positive mind-set. Acceptance is the key to our emotional freedom. It allows no negative situation to be prolonged on our minds, which can potentially grow severely strong emotions like hate, anger, bitterness, jealousy and/ or a have a deceitful heart. All the latter emotions are causes of lifestyle diseases.
Reality happens every day in our lives and we ought to flow with it by accepting it. When you do not accept the incident you end up living it for the rest of your life.
Opportunities will come and pass by because you are focused on the past. Each day comes with so much grace for you to bask in the joy and peace the universe offers through it and the only way is through acceptance.
Forgiveness is made cheap by acceptance. You will know that everyone is not perfect therefore they are bound to make mistakes. Mistakes are never budgeted for by anyone thus one creates a room to allow others to express their flaws without judging them.
This prolongs and strengthens relationships. Love is acceptance. You cannot express any affection without accepting the other partner's weaknesses and strengths.
One day, a certain lady who grew up from a very humble background, fell pregnant at her teen age.
As a result of her poor condition she gave up her newly born baby boy with an African map birth mark on his thigh for adoption.
She grew up without her son and later in her stage of youthful life, got married to the wealthiest man in her community. She could not give her husband a child and it really pained her that she gave away her only child.
They hired a young boy whom her spirit could not accept but the husband loved so dearly and wished he could be his son. She ridiculed, humiliated, insulted and reduced the esteem and worth of the young boy.
One day she got angry at the young man and stripped his clothes off while he lay on the floor with a suicidal thought. When he stood up, the woman saw the African birth mark on his thigh.
She dropped the iron rod she meant to hit him with and started crying in a deep pain. She has been mistreating her son all this time due to her pride of wealth.
The woman then apologised and the young man accepted the apology and a reunion was made. They all lived in harmony thereafter.
Acceptance open mysterious doors of greatness and earns you a content yet positive perceptive about life.
*Kealeboga Ronald Ngwigwa is an Author of a book titled 50 SHOTS OF COLOR (Download e-copy on KINDLE AMAZON), Motivational Speaker, Radio Feature Presenter, Events DC and Humanitarian who believes that there is greatness to be unleashed in all of us. Contact him on ngwigwa.holdings@gmail.com or call +26773646321 for bookings or What’s App +26771830584. Facebook page: Coloring Souls Coaching. LinkedIn: Kealeboga Ronald Ngwigwa. Instagram: #ColoringSouls.