5/23/2006
Someone sent me one of those chain emails yesterday. I hate chain emails and most often I delete them before giving them a second glance but the one that landed in my inbox yesterday caused me to read further than the subject line. Maybe you've seen it, it's titled "I wish you enough." The story it tells isn't a fantastic one, it's not well written, and even the meaning is a bit weak but the word 'enough' sparked something in my brain and I pondered the word most of yesterday. The word itself means sufficient to meet need or desire. Wishing someone 'enough' means you wish their needs and desires to be met. It's a nice thought isn't it? But does that ever really happen? Do we ever have enough love? Enough happiness? Enough peace? Enough money? Do we have enough of any of these things that we actually feel 'sufficient'? I think sometimes we convince ourselves we have enough, we find someone we love that loves us back but at some point we've probably all thought or said, I need more. I need more attention, I need more understanding, I need more space, I need more time, I need I need I need. So will that love, pure and simple, ever be enough?
I think it's a wonderful wish to cast upon someone, to wish them 'enough', but I have to wonder how often that wish is ever fulfilled. Can life ever give us 'enough' to fill our desire and help us feel that what we have - is sufficient? God I hope so.
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I see you,
JJ
not enuff love, attention, drama if you're talking of wishes
but I always seem to have my real needs fulfilled, now the basics I always seem to have enuff
but my perceptions lately are a bit off I think
Thanks for your encouragement, I'm hanging in-- you are a love
What more could I possibly need than
"today"? Keep on soul searching my friend,you are on to something:)
Thank you for sharing ~
It is, in a sense, being thankful for what we have.
This in itself allows us inner peace.
I think enough is enough when it comes to those damn chain emails...
As always, great post.
I love the idea that we are given enough - what we need each day. But at the same time, how do we know when we are just wanting more and really maybe deserving more than we have (I'm thinking of love etc. here as opposed to possessions). I don't know. I see now why the concept of enough had you thinking all day.
Hang on. Now I'm not sure if I was saying the opposite or not. I think I'd better go back to bed.
I like the meaning it conveys in english. Am for the positive attitude. The What I don't have I don't need and what i have is enough. Wishing you enough.
Thanks for sharing.
Fitèna