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I May Never Be Enough For Anybody But I’ll Be Enough For Myself
A loosely edited rambling from my free-write journal:
People these days want to rush through everything. There’s speed reading. There’s speed dating. There are speed-eating contests. We are willing to get tickets for speeding in the streets. Everything has to be fast and accessible. We can’t seem to slow down. We’re mad when the internet is slow. When the DMV line is slow. When the people walking in from of you are going too slow. We want everything to happen fast while the time is still young. While we are still young.
We think that everything we do must achieve overnight success. Pick up new things and then drop them when we get discouraged. The present moment is never enough. We either need the next thing or remain idle and be haunted by our past. The present moment is always there but is never given proper attention. Everybody cares too much about the future and never forgives what is to be left behind in the past. We start to define each other by a shortlist of actions and not by character. Mistakes are now definable traits.
We all want to be better at the cost of not accepting who we are. Not strong enough. Not attractive enough. Not smart enough. Not successful enough. It’s never enough. Our thoughts shape who we are. You set your own limitations. Nobody can touch the fact that…
