Self-acceptance and not caring about life, key to happiness?

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I seem to have two modes in life, sometimes I don't care what people think and what happens in the future, worry about it when it happens, and other periods I worry about the future and what people think. It is almost like having two personalities over different periods of time and going from one extreme to the other.

I care about life, but at the same time, I've found and accepted myself.

Now that I think about it, I think one of the primary challenges with self-acceptance, would be to not compare yourself with others.

At least, that's the main problem I have, regarding this.

Saying you came this far right away, without any help or kindness from others, I really have a hard time believeing, so pardon me.

Ego. Not how I see it, really. It's kind of odd to me though, that one would just suddenly not care about things that bothered them a long time. If OP means that he got this after time, then I would agree. Acceptance isn't an ego trait either! It's healthy. Most people have to learn how to do it, I could swear.

Are you two speaking english? And I never said it didn't take a long time to adopt this mindset.

For me, it has been self acceptance AND caring.

And coffee heath bar ice cream. (No, not BJ's. Theirs sucks now that Bryer's owns them. I make my own now, and it's even better than the original. )

When you learn to accept yourself for who you are and stop caring what others think about you, it goes a long way to you being happy.