Modern Romanticism

Human acceptance is a desired thing. But when it becomes so desired that we deny how it can be implemented, we might be leaning towards having it in the most unnatural of ways. Forcing acceptance is not possible, because what’s occurring is the instilling of fear for the self if acceptance is not given. That is, to enforce something that should be natural will cause a person to consider what might be lost, of themselves, if there is no compliance from them.

The idea of force considers oneself, as that’s because it can be narrowed down to familiar examples. Such as, envying someone who is rich, or to burglarize someone’s house. These examples are carrying this idea of force, as the first example considers what the self lacks, while envying the rich is always a sign that they’ll not approach a successful person for advice. Advice would take time to consider, thus not being an example where the application and practice of such given advice has a place. The place of time is an important factor for force, where itself is lacking. A person who wishes a thing to be done with force involved won’t find time an ample resource. To someone who sides with force, all acts need to be done in an instant or in as little time as possible.

When considering acceptance, there ought to also be considered how human beings trust each other. A human relationship, built on emotions, fragile as these connections can be, were built through trust because one of the two in one of these connections gave over information that would not have been given to just anyone. This was done through trust because if that information could have been leaked anywhere by the person who originates that information, it would not have been given with trust in mind to begin with. All this means that trust is an important ingredient for acceptance to be the case.

Also, when it comes to genuine acceptance, only individuals, not groups, are able to do this. What is the need to accept someone whom we don’t know? Where is the purpose in being this blind? A person needs to know who they’re accepting, or otherwise enforcing acceptance is the only route. That’s because whenever an individual finds that they cannot naturally accept someone else, out of perhaps a good reason to not trust them, it was due to their consideration of what they’ll lose from themselves. Enforcing acceptance would only engrain what a person considers when it comes to themselves, out of this lacking place for it to come about naturally.