What If?

Just Think About It #4

What would happen if I just accepted myself the way that I am? What would happen if you joined me and we both accepted you the way that you are too? What if?

What would happen if we accepted our imperfections as truth? If we just sat with these truths for a moment without trying to change them...without trying to hide them...without trying to deny their presence, but just sat with them and accepted that they are real, that they exist and that they belong to us? What would happen?

What would happen if we didn't concern ourselves with what other people thought, said or advised of us? What would happen if we just said, "Yeah, that's me. Now what?" What would happen if we never received an answer...if nothing ever changed and if we could live with that? What would happen?

What would happen if we just accepted? Did nothing else, but accepted? What would happen if our minds didn't meander backwards for an explanation of why? What would happen if our minds didn't race forward to figure out how to change, what to do or even where to hide? What would happen if we locked the door to the parallel universe that we often visit where we are free to see ourselves differently, not truthfully, but differently despite what reality says? What would happen if we locked that door and then lost that key? Or better yet, what would happen if we purposely threw that key away? What would happen?

What would happen if we could agree with our critics and accept that they are as free as we are to believe, to think, to share and to accept? What would happen if we could listen without judgment? If we could converse without offense? If we could share without stinging? What would happen if we replaced the need to defend, deflect and deflate with...just...acceptance instead? What would happen?

What would happen if others let us "be", just like we let them "be" and we all just learned how to "be" together? What would happen if we didn't limit with labels? If we didn't push with opinions? If we didn't categorize, stigmatize and even legitimize people with our personal standards, but we just accepted that what is, just is? What would happen?

What would happen if you took the time to read this and felt that you had wasted your time? That the writer must be nuts? That there's just no way? That this is an impossible statement built of hot air, lofty dreams and crazy ideals? What would happen if you decided, or if we decided, that this isn't reality and that I'm the one knocking on the door of a parallel universe? What if you were right? And...

What would happen if I just didn't care? What would happen?

Just think about it...what if?