Embracing life After reading the story of “kitchen table wisdom on embracing life” by Rachel Remen, I leant the meaning of embracing life is to accept all of our lives, whether is happiness of successes or pain of failures. Our lives are incomplete if we only highlight our happiness and ignore our failures .It's important to face life with a positive attitude.

In this story, Remen show a puzzle game to reflect human lives, she hid the ugly puzzles what she don’t like. But Without the pieces She had hidden, the game had made no sense. Those ugly puzzles are the fear, failures and unfortunates in our lives , But are also a significant part of our lives.Life will be meaningless if we hide them behind us and ignore them.

When put the dark pieces in place the picture, a beautiful sense of picture emerged. Every fragment has its meaning of existence.In fact,the dark pieces of life what we don't want to accept and even try to escape can be a strong force in growing progress. Of course, the kind of strength belongs to those who face and accept their pain with positive attitudes and thoughts.

‘Whoopee! More fertilizer for my garden!’ is a statement from another story "A truckload of dung" that shows a positive attitude to embrace life when a tragedy occurs in our lives. Dung is smelly, but it is fertilizer for garden.In this story ,“fertilizer " and “garden"refers to "strength "and "life ", The tragedy just like the dark puzzle is ugly but it can be a kind of strength we need more to help us to grow . As the saying goes, no pain no gain. When tragedy comes ,accept our pain ,and face with a positive attitude, which is a better way to gain the strength for our lives and also is the meaning of embracing life.