apparently I was trying to be thoughtful...
Life must be embraced as though it is someone you love. You don’t accept it because it’s perfect. It never can be. If it were perfect you’d suspect that something were seriously wrong with it beneath the surface. You would suspect something was just waiting to rot it out from the inside and destroy it completely. But life, like a lover, is full of flaws, inadequacies, shortcomings, and other such things. You embrace a lover not despite their flaws, but rather because of them. It is those little quirks that make them who they are. The shortcomings make them the person you love. The same should go for life. Life is full of pain, sorrow and troubles. But you shouldn’t shun these things. To say you would enjoy life if all the pain and sorrow didn’t exist is the same as saying you would enjoy life if it weren’t, in fact, life at all. People should embrace life for all that it is. To learn to run headlong into the pain, the sorrow, the troubles. This is to learn to live fully. To embrace life in all its inadequacies. To find joy in that which is painful. Much as you embrace a lover and cherish even the worst of their flaws, so should you embrace life and cherish even the worst of times. For those times polish life so you can see the good times all the more clearly.