Acceptance
“The body is unable to accept the medicine” declares a doctor, to the guys who volunteer to stand_by a patient.
This sentence is very naturally interpreted by the care_takers/standers_by as “Oh! So the chances of the patient's recovery is now bleak” 😓
It is not about ‘refusal’ often. Inability to accept, when a human body is choiceless about our choices of intake 🙏
Ancients managed to ‘tackle’ even_the unavailability of air to breath and food to eat, by evolving into sophisticated practices which can obviate the need to convert the 5 basic_elements in nature into a form which is acceptable by the design of a human body 🙏 (I was made to try one such spiritual practice, and the need to ‘eat’ food dropped dramatically). Thats "acceptance" at sophisticated and subtle levels.
What about the accept_Abiliity of our mind? We put up a verbal argument, whenever our inability to ‘accept' a verbal statement gets provoked 😜. When a ‘mind’ turns into its own enemy(peak levels of non_acceptance), others around start planning to ‘somehow’ hoodwink that owner of the mind to reach a mental health home 🤣.
Inclusiveness seems to be the key to expand our scope of acceptance 🙏
We have no difficulty in accepting_inclusion of our body as ‘ours’. A chronic and acute diabetic is able to accept a proposal to chop off a toe(amputation) so that the rest of the body can live a little longer🙏.
The mind resists to ‘ampute’ the negatives that deter the expansion of itself to ‘include’ more into itself! ( A classic example in the epic story of Mahabharat: Duryodhana declares(lucky to be able to accept that he cannot_accept something precious 😜) when he said “I know what is Dharma and Adharma very well. But I can neither accept dharma, nor get_rid_of the adharma in me”
We see tragic instances of teenagers suddenly ending their life, when they are unable to ‘accept' a score that cannot get them an admission into a medical College, in the ‘NEET’ exam 😥🙏. They get very high scores, not just a ‘pass’ marks. It is about cut-off( amputation)!!! Probably, they fail to remember(recognise) the ‘basic’ truth that it is a competitive examination, not a qualifying examination 🙏. The criteria is ‘elimination’ among_the_qualified, and_not about ‘selection' or assessment for the qualification/qualified.
A joke:
At my workplace, me and my colleagues were approaching fifties. The lady engaged to prepare & serve us tea/coffee twice a day, needed to be reminded “without sugar”. My next seated colleague lamented “you are lucky, but I need to specify ‘without sugar’. I turned to that lady and announced ”without sugar henceforth, for me as well 👍”. Both, the lady & colleague stared at me in disbelief!!!! I enjoyed ‘good tea’ for the next few months, consistently👍. 🤣…. That colleague, over these months, started accepting the irritating few customers at his counter, quite unaware of his subtle transformation in his mind 😜😜😜( for me, very privately it was “operation success👍”. That colleague became relaxed. The inevitable consequence was, his irritants found no resistance to their irritability, and gradually dropped off their own irritation_emissions 🤣🤣
I felt overjoyed to come across a statement by a youth who “accepted” his friend's concept about ‘arguements/debates’ some 15 years later👍🙏. It might take even that long to uproot some of the stubbornities in us😜. He conceded (accepted) that an argument is not about convincing the other, but about finding out how strong we ourselves are about ourselves being convinced. This perspective is itself going to change the way we_argue😜🙏🙏🙏. “Pre-loaded” with utmost positivity in our arguments/debates 👍
Acceptably yours,
psn(20 Jul, 2026)
Tailpiece 😜
If that “without sugar” wala joke is insipid, a sugared Fact 🙏: a sensible mom stays awake without any reason, alongside her child, cramming the syllabus for the whole night to prepare for an examination next day😂. That child ‘feels’ motivated to “accept” the Need to forego sleep that night, and focuses better on the syllabus, instead of chanting “I am cursed to keep awake, while all others in our family are Snoring blissfully 😭”.