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There is one issue with just accepting it as is, and that is that it gets in the way of earning a living, and being functional at all. I don't know if anyone can accept that easily.
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Mindfulness doesn't mean that I "accept" something problematic in the sense that it is okay, or I that I just have to live with it, or that I should relax with it.
I'm really sorry if I gave an impression akin to that, which perhaps was offensive. I'm sorry.
A basic/paradoxical claim of mindfulness, fwiw, is this:
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As long as you are resisting how things are, they can’t be different. And so when you [open up to how they are] and learn to accept things exactly as they are, not because you want them to be so and “accept” they will always be that way, but just because that’s how they are, paradoxically, you allow them to change.
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Mindfulness is not about accepting yourself exactly as you are | by Joe Hunt | The Startup | Medium