Enough?
More
Enough. eNOF. Enough Enuf eenuff ENUF. AM I ENOUGH YET?!!!!!!
The world spins at a dizzying pace around us, whispering notions of what is required, what must be sacrificed, and what must be accomplished so that we are allowed to feel we are ‘enough’. Everyone hears different voices… but the usual choir is a dissonant discord of material success, measurable achievement, continual growth, etc…
Once we achieve this ambiguous ‘enough’ state (financially, physically, socially, mentally, spiritually) — THEN we shall feel… enough? We will suddenly gain the capacity to take off our masks, relieve our guards, relax, and be happy for a moment...
Ideally, this blissful state of earned enlightenment will persist until our wee existence is snuffed out.
Unfortunately, that isn’t how the human Mcbrain deluxe works. Hedonic treadmill and such. But that’s only the biological aspect. The rest is steeped in the societal stew. Infatuated with greed disguised as ambition, and power disguised as honor, we push, kick, and stomp over each other in the name of “more”. After all, when forced to choose between the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’….
Well I’d like to add my hippie, sunny field of f*cking flowers list of shit which I think the planet could use “more” of:
more laughter more kindness, which requires courage more awareness, which results in more beauty more mischief more hope, which is under constant attack from the cynical goblins more listening, which we all pretty much suck at more creativity more love, for self and others
I want to be a version of myself that brings more of this into the world. I fail miserably, over and over— but I still have the nerve to aim to inspire these in myself and others through my infantile art, kicking and screaming and shitting my pants the whole way.
Welp, to aim is to miss, and to miss is to try again.
Idk
what can the world use ‘more’ of?
-W
