2026, in all honesty, has been a much better year for me. I am working toward bettering myself in many ways. Now that is to say that it isn’t perfect, nothing is. But overall, many good things have occurred. These events have made this year much better compared to the past years. One key aspect was beginning to accept what is. I am also working on letting go of what was, as it no longer serves me.

I have allowed myself to become emotionally attached to thoughts and feelings more than necessary. These include theories I was led to believe. I thought they should be the way I wanted. I knew they would not be that way. I did not have the power to change them. I had long been angry at things and people. I felt they robbed me of things without showing me the whole picture. I needed to learn it was better to accept what is. Acceptance serves me better than the past I believed in ever.

I knew I had to let it go. At the start of the year, it seemed the future was certain. I had to start accepting what it was going to be. While it was not everything that was met, it met my needs in the current way. I had to see how fortunate I was by having things happen in the way they did. They got better. It made me realize I needed to let go of what I had long led myself to believe. I needed to start doing better things with my mind and be kind to it too.

I had started to work on other things. I learned that life can be much better if I do what I know I need to do. Even if I believed for a long time that what I had to do didn’t help me, it actually did. It was important, even when I made the slightest mistake. The reality is that things happen because we make the right choice. We have to work on making them better and do the right thing because we know we can.

Things happen in our lives that we don’t like. We can become irritated by them. But that does not mean we have to just give up on what we are doing. We should not fall into the same old habits that formerly set us back. I realized that I am prone to things happening. Instead of acting in the ways I have when emotions arise, I work until I find what works for me. I do what I know is best, even if I don’t want to.

It can be hard to accept what is happening. We even have to do things that we don’t want to do. In fact, it can cause things to happen to us that we don’t like. Yet, I know that I have the power to get through what I need to do in a healthy way. I can also work with coping in a healthy way. Yes, it can be hard. I see the damage when I don’t do what is best. It makes it challenging to recover from later on.