From “The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse” by Charlie Mackesy.
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“What’s your best discovery?” asked the mole.
“That I’m enough as I am” said the boy.
Oh, this one makes me uncomfortable today. Whenever I hear someone saying that phrase that they are “enough”, I don’t know what it means. It makes my stomach clench and flip over. It makes me feel like a fraud and a liar. Something inside me screams against it, I don’t know how to be “enough as I am”.
Does this make me heavily reliant on others? Not generally I don’t think, but there are elements that I need to make me feel whole. If I were ‘enough’ then I wouldn’t need reassurance, I wouldn’t crave the feeling of belonging, I wouldn’t be desperate to feel needed or wanted. These things are always there for me. Even when I’ve lived alone, when I didn’t have any friends or family close to me, I had to throw myself into work to feel useful and productive. Maybe the word ‘enough’ is preceded by ‘good’ in my head. Maybe it’s not clear enough analytically for me. I clearly need to dig at this little painful root twisted around inside of me, I need to find ways to accept myself.
What is ‘enough’?
Can you say, “I’m enough as I am”?
What does it mean to you?
The People Person 