Acceptance

Everything must end. Even endings. Endings are, in their own dark way, a tacit opportunity for a new beginning. At some point, for God knows what reason, the hurting stops and we travel on, nursing our scar tissue less and less, until it becomes a part of us. Acceptance isn't about undoing the damage we've done, but rather coming to terms with it and learning how to not let it handicap us. You have no idea how close the race was between David Byrne's "Finite = Alright" and this, the winning song about acceptance.

"Go Ahead", Rilo Kiley

If you want to find yourself by traveling out west
Or if you want to find somebody else that's better
Go ahead
Go ahead

If you want to buy a brand new fancy automobile
Or if you want to build a place up in Coldwater Canyon
Go ahead
Go ahead
Go ahead, wish you would
Go ahead

If you want to hold your own hand going up that cliff
Or if you want to hold back because you ain't up to it
Go ahead
Go ahead
Go ahead, be my guest
Go ahead

If you want to hold onto the first girl that you meet
Or if you want to settle down and plant roses at my feet
Go ahead
Go ahead
Go ahead, I wish you would
Go ahead

If you want to have your cake and eat it too
And if you want to have other people watch you while you eat it
Go ahead
Go ahead
Go ahead, be my guest
Go ahead

If you want better things, I want you to have them
If you want better things, then I want you to have them

Go ahead
Go ahead
Go ahead, I wish you would
Go ahead
Go ahead, I wish you would
Go ahead