Accepting What Is– is my August focus word.

It sounds passive, doesn’t it?
Acceptance. Like surrendering the sword and sitting down. Like saying, “I give up.”

But this month, I’ve been learning…
it’s not giving up.
It’s giving in—to life, as it is.

I chose “accepting what is” as my anchor word, not because I’m a spiritual person floating in perfect stillness. No. I chose it because *fighting with reality hurts*- and yes, I learned that the hard way!
It drains the soul. It burns energy I no longer wish to waste nor have.

So, I learn to stay.
To breathe.
To meet life where it already stands, instead of dragging it toward what I wish it would be.

I don’t chase the flashy things anymore.
I try—honestly try—to love what I already have.
To love what’s already happening to me.

Not because it’s perfect. Not because I’ve stopped dreaming.
But because peace is not found in fixing everything—
it’s found in *being with* everything.

Even the ache.
Even the mess.
Even the days that feel gray and small.

This is not passivity.
This is a different kind of strength.
A quiet, rooted kind.
A fight, not with the world, but for inner stillness.
And for me this is a fight worth fighting for, it feels revolutionary but at the same time it feels ancient.

Amor fati.

Karin Sabrina