Enough.
- jasleenkchadha
- Dec 3, 2022
- 3 min read
There is a wildness in us all. A need to adventure, to fly, to sour and dive. The world is made of tests and tied to thought, feeling and force. We stand between, stand within and on the side lines - looking for guidance or searching within.
It is easy to feel incomplete - to feel not enough. To feel we need to improve, to increase, expand, gain and grow. Some of our greatest ambitions can be our greatest cage. Our greatest limitations, as we set outstanding standards can become destructive, unsafe, unkind and untrue. Our achievements, our relationships, our journeys become not enough. They are paved in a cup half filled, as we yearn and long for something else, something greater and something richer.
At times, we ourselves can be swallowed and contoured by these targets, ambitions and dreams - so much so that we ourselves begin to feel not enough. That we imagine our value as a variable, a number and a source of capital.
Our enough-ness comes to be measured out as mothers, fathers, financial contributors, children, teachers, explorers, speakers, artists, directors, lovers and leaders. Where does the buck end? When do we wake up feeling enough, feeling fulfilled, feeling balanced, feeling enlightened and full on this immense opportunity to be here, in this moment?
If we spend all our waking hours in a state of reach, in a state of travelling and a state of aim - towards a perfect day and time - we are set to lose. We are set to be transfixed in a state of perpetual incompleteness. When we are already whole. Already full and already enough.
We tie our worth to chapters, to choices, to timelines and to meeting something extraordinary - one day. Yet, there is much heroism, courage and grace in feeling enough today - without cause to measure, compare, contrast, or envisage a better partner, home life, work balance or lifestyle.
What if we could set aside those ambitions for a moment and recognise how far we have come, how much we are and how much we have already, today, in this moment. There is no perfect day and no perfect world, but we can strive to feel perfectly enough - with or without addition, attainment or gain.
That is not to say we should let go of our dreams, destinies and hopes in life. Simply to take a breath, take a pause and press love, light and joy in what we have already, in what we are already and in who we have crossed paths with already.
Else life becomes a constant conveyor belt, a constant acquisition, a constant movement for more, better, faster - when we are already our most, already our best and already are fastest.
Whatever we choose and whatever goals, dreams and ambitions we choose to chase - we must always return to a sense of being enough. Our value uncompounded in what we do, but how we love, how we respond, how we show kindness, compassion and empathy, and how we manage our world, our instincts and tend to that and those that matter most. Tend to that which lasts and outlives. Without deviation, dismissal or distraction.
Enough is enough. So feel it whenever life feels hot, heaving or overbearing. Just stop for a moment to say, "I am enough, I have enough."
See what that does and how it shifts your landscape, your thinking and your conviction of what is really important to you, to those around you and to the world you inhabit. Each day of your life.

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