Good Enough

One of the core realizations for me has been around self-criticism and judgment. It has taken me forty-plus years to realize that these immature beliefs that I am not enough do more damage than good, and that self-love is a stronger, cleaner motivator than self-hate.

Within all of us is an innate goodness, the purest of energies. A directionless power with the tenderness of a soft flower, the warmth of a baby, and the protective strength of a wrathful god.

Yet this energy can be difficult to touch, and even harder to accept. Our daily egoic lives place our center in a position of everlasting improvement. The idea that we might already be complete seems impossible. We live in a constant reality of evolutionary fitness, trained to strive for survival, always reaching to be better, gain more, attain greater knowledge, experience, and worth.

The very idea of being whole is foreign. The concept of being “good” even further from reach. And living from that place of goodness, untouched and unbroken, can seem impossible.

Yet the very connection we seek with the world can come from realizing we are already there. Being good requires nothing more than allowing it to be true. That we are, right now, just like this, good. That there is nothing more to attain to be “good enough.”

Drop the idea that you need to change. That your goodness was ever in question. You were born good, and it never left you. No matter your past. No matter your mistakes. You are the essence of more than enough, just as you are, right now. Including all the perceived inadequacies, including the self-judgments and the criticisms. Together they form a web of complexity and wonder that is the essence of perfection.

Allow that goodness to radiate from an open heart. Lay down the resistance to enough. Open to the world around you and let your goodness be what finally connects you to this perfectly imperfect place.

This is the freedom we all deserve. Your goodness can be the catalyst that allows others to remember their own right to be enough. Do not squander it. We all deserve that good version of you.

So let this be enough. It is okay for this to be good. For you to be good. Stop fighting.