Common Forms

The world is very diverse. What does it mean to accept a person? It means that you view that person as a person of worth. It means that you like him as he is and can respect his rights to be dissimilar from you. It means that you allow him to possess his or her own feelings about matters. It means that you accept his or her attitudes of the moment, no matter how they may differ from yours. Although it is highly rewarding to accept another person just as he is, it is not easy to do so. If you can begin to control critical remarks  where before you freely stated them, especially when you don't like his or her suggestions of mothers day gift ideas as an example, you may well have taken the first step toward full acceptance of that person. An important prerequisite to accepting others at face value is one's ability to accept himself just as he is. Self acceptance enables us to become more aware of other people. We will become more content to be ourselves and to let others be themselves.