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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8910231.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %ACCEPT REJECT CHANGE PEOPLE IDEAS IDEALS ATTITUDE 891023 Our level of satisfaction or frustration is intimately related to the nature of our patterns of acceptance or rejection of people, ideas, ideals, attitudes, habits, situations, etc. We differ from each other as regards the focus of our acceptance and/or rejection. If people are the focus of our acceptance and/or rejection, we lead one sort of life. If ideas, ideals and attitudes are the foci of our acceptance and/or rejection, we lead another sort of life. We also differ in regards to the bases we use as grounds for acceptance/rejection. The bases may be static or dynamic. They may be legalistic or charitable. They may be formal or informal, personal or impersonal, etc. We may differ in regards how willing we will be to change ourselves, and how much we expect all accommodations to be made by others. We may be unwilling to change ourselves and eager to change other people over whom we have no power of control. In such a case we are likely to be very frustrated and be imprisoned in our frustration, because we are unwilling to change the attitudes which repeatedly lead us into frustrating relationships. We may be frustrated by conditions around us which are of our own making through action or inaction. Others may be powerless to change the conditions around us which are of our own making through our action or inaction. If we assume it is the responsibility of others to make the accommodations which we think would reduce our frustration, we imprison ourselves through our assumption, and lock the door of our prison by being unwilling to examine the possibility that what needs to be changed is ours: i.e.; our assumptions, ideals, ideas, attitudes and habits of mind and heart. When we are frustrated we need to examine our own ideas, ideals, values, assumptions, expectations, etc. to see what there may be about us which we have the power to change (and nobody else has the power to change) which we would do well to change for our own sake. We need to be responsible for changing what only we can change; and let go, and let others be responsible for changing what only they can change. Only then we can cooperate in changing what only we can change together through cooperative efforts. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================