ENOUGH!

Why do you see someone else’s progress as a sign of your failure?

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, it’s completely okay to not have it all. That whole feeling bad about your situation just because someone is doing better than you? It’s unnecessary.

Everybody is running their own race, so you can’t use someone else’s journey as a metric to measure your progress. In the words of TheOlushola, “Do your best.” As long as you’re doing your best, even if you don’t have all the next person has, it really shouldn’t bother you.

A few days ago, I watched a video of Pastor Irene Emmanuel on someone’s WhatsApp status. He told a story about two guys who were constantly being compared. The person comparing them told one of them, “You see that other guy? What he earns in a day, your entire fortune is not up to it.”

But the guy responded calmly. He said he had something the other guy didn’t. And guess what it was? He said, “I have enough.”

That story rang in my head for days, he had enough. But what is enough? What does it mean to have enough? Do I have enough?

Dearest reader, enough is not about having it all. Enough is contentment. It’s the peace that comes from meeting your own standards, not the standards society is screaming at you to chase.

Somebody will always be doing better. If you earn 1 million, someone out there earns 10 billion. If you can fly a plane, someone has been to the moon. So don’t compare your journey to someone else’s, you’ll only end up unhappy.

Don’t let the achievements of others make you feel small. You are not living the same life, and you are not carrying the same responsibilities.

And anytime you hear, “It’s your mate that did this,” remember that some of your mates have also died.

Be grateful, embrace your journey.

You have enough!!!

@favvy_Okwans🖤.