I Accept deals with the difficult coming of age story of a young woman who’s first memory of how she got where she is right now is the day her mother held her and told her that her father had left. Sitting in her therapist’s office looking at all of the perfectly placed things she tries to find the moments of displacement she has lived through. Through the telling of her story she reflects on the loss of her father from her life being the creation of a whole within her that she spent most of her teenage years trying to fill. She tried filling it with drinking, drugs and other men. There is a power that comes from her realization that through all of her soul searching and all of the bad decisions and drunken nights that her mother was always there ready and waiting to once again pick her up, hold her, and try her best to make sure that she had the resources to change her life. It is in her moment of acceptance that she realizes that she made some bad choices but she owns them and has made the decision to make the first step toward getting her life in order. She has the power to stand in reflection of herself and say, “I Accept.”
