Saying yes is not about creating your reality as some might teach. Creating your life depletes it of wonder, and mystery; it makes life unexciting and less mythological. Our lives are not always shaped by the situations we knowingly create, they are shaped by situations we said YES to. Saying yes to life means saying yes to change. Change is inevitable, it's preordained. Children are born, people die, people change, things change, etc. Life is essentially about change