Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.
Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think in essence what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.
Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.
Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there's a tendency to revert to that - to pull back, recede. I don't think it's advisable or admirable.