Acceptance and hope

I have repeatedly questioned myself whether we should look into our lives in totality or just slice by slice. There's danger in doing either separately. If you take the general outlook of one's life and categorize it into a happy healthy or even a prosperous one, you may easily forget the dark slices of anxiety uncertainty and even despair. The unhappy slices of our lives are permanently mixed with the overall positive look which truly characterizes our human nature. That's probably how we resolve the tension between acceptance and hope.