Enough is Enough

It is staggering to me how many people in society are struggling with feeling like they are enough.  There is debilitating, crushing pressure on all of us to be someone we are not.  To wear something that is acceptable, to act a way that is normal, to work a job that is approved, but who is actually the gauge to measure what is acceptable, normal, or approved.  I have lived my life trying to fit in.  Worth and value to society is one of the hardest concepts to adopt into your everyday thinking and oppressive opinions and expectations are the root of all evil here.  

Can you even imagine if we were all just alike?  Everyone had blonde straight hair?  Everyone was thin?  Everyone eats kale salad for lunch?  This was not how the world was created.  We would have nothing at all to learn in this world if everyone were alike.  I have struggled with my weight for my entire life.  Menopause has done a real number on my body and I would love not to be fat like I thought I was years ago.  I think of all the time I wasted sucking in my belly and trying to look thinner.  I am over it.  I am tired of trying to fit into the mold that society wants to pour me into and pop me out looking just the way that television would dictate that I should look.  Bless us all.  How do you accept that you are enough?  That is such an illustrious goal and one that many are 6 feet under without ever grasping.  It is sad really, to go to your grave still trying to suck in, not just sucking in your gut but sucking in the real us that society does not want.  

Today is D day.  the end.  finality.  Repeat this after me:  I am me.  Others can learn from me.  I have value, I have worth.  I am not the sum of my past.  I am my future.  I am adorable.  Stand in front of the mirror and repeat this until you believe it.  Pour into yourself because no one else will.  Be like Nike, just do it.  

Today, may you realize that you are enough with your moles, your belly fat, your double chin, your poor decisions, your job that you hate, your failures and your triumphs.  YOU. ARE ENOUGH.

Make today the best day ever and go forth and be fabulous!
​Jennifer