Well, hello there, it's Morgan Harper Nichols here. I'm an artist and a writer, and this is a space where I turn the lens on various topics and subjects and hopes to learn something new or see something in a new way. Today's piece is called When You Feel Like You're Not Enough. Thank you so much for listening. Some of the popular definitions for the

word enough include as much or as many as required to the required degree or extent, to a degree

or quantity that satisfies or that is sufficient or necessary for

satisfaction enough requires a lot it requires an a lot to be enough for other people

or enough to feel like you're good at your job or you're doing the right

things that you're supposed to do. What is enough? And out of curiosity, I actually looked up the

word enough in Google Trends feature, which allows you to see the popularity of a word

that's been used online or searched for since kind of the beginning of the internet. And this led me to

see that the word enough has been trending upward in usage, especially since around 2004, which Google Trends holds data

from that time. And the word enough can be applied to a lot of different things. So I took it a bit

further. And I looked down at related queries, queries that were related to the word enough.

And sure enough, a lot of the queries, the popular ones over the course of time have been

things about not enough, good enough, never enough, just enough, you are enough, strong enough.

These are some of the most popular queries. And this led me to just think about how many different variations of never enough, not feeling good enough.

There are amongst human beings. So what do we do with all of these

never enoughs and not good enoughs in our lives, these questions of am I enough?

And I think we have two options. We can either, one, focus on all of the places where we are not enough, or two, we can focus on all

of the places where we are enough.

But here's the catch.

The places where we are enough may seem small or insignificant. The places where we do feel like we've done enough, it may seem like it doesn't matter in the bigger picture. I'll give you an example. This morning, I fixed a cup of coffee,

and I put just enough creamer in the coffee to my satisfaction. It was enough. I was a part of this

act of being enough to make this coffee what it was supposed to be for who it was

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