Comments on: Enough

By: Kel

Kel — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:58:58 +0000

I have checked in here on a regular basis, but I've never posted a comment before. It took me too fucking long (4 kids and 23 years with an ill--matched mate) to get over a similar feeling of not measuring up. I wish you the best! Visit Kel to read...More baby steps

By: Al_Pal

Al_Pal — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:50:49 +0000

Aww, *hugs*!
I’m the sister of the Dog. ;p
This was in her shared items. We feel you, I’m sure.

I’d guess you’ve seen this, but it if always good to see again:

Marianne Williamson is the author of A Return to Love.

* “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.’ We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”, Harper Collins, 1992. From Chapter 7, Section 3])

By: EveGrey

EveGrey — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:27:54 +0000

This is why I come here everyday. You are honest, brilliant, beautiful. I would feel honoured to have you in my life. Visit EveGrey to read...Damn Procrastination

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:19:03 +0000

Baby, we all reach to be something more – we are never satisfied by nature. It’s when we begin to beat ourselves up for this wanting of more, that we feel we begin to sink.

And, I know where you’re coming from.

That – and, while some people shouldn’t be carrying their baggage around and blaming it past their 20 somethings, there are also other people who have MORE stuff that needs to be worked through. You know? So understand your past and the way it’s impacted you and THEN? Then, you make a decision on how you’ll let it affect you here and now. Because girl, if you think you’re broken…believe you’re broken…settle on broken…you WILL be broken…but only because you willed it to be so.

I love you, and I know you have a lot of shit going on inside…but I think you are pretty damn awesome AS IS. I just wish you could love you as much as I do.

xoxo

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By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:06:07 +0000

None of us are advanced enough to leave behind our little selves. In our bigger/older bodies, there's room enough, yes, even with your small waist, to keep her in there with you, sharing those jeans. The trick, I think, is to know we ARE mostly enough, for whatever it is we're doing now. We ARE enough if we let it happen. Visit Erin to read...FIRST SNOW

By: Nicki

Nicki — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:47:45 +0000

You are hella cool. Your blog is hella cool. Your kid is hella cool. Probably no matter how many times you hear people say this, it won't be enough to make you believe it... but I'm saying it for good measure... You are definitely good enough! Visit Nicki to read...Fifty-Fifty

By: Marge

Marge — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:05:24 +0000

Aren't these thoughts part of the process of understanding self? Self as you are and who you can be. Not the self that others have defined for you. If you believe them or let them control then you can never really know your true self. You cannot make your self become more or less, you can only grow to a point of accepting that your self is enough. And in doing so, you will be able to be a role model of self acceptance to Isobel, who is your opportunity to make rights out so many wrongs. Visit Marge to read...Old School Style

By: Cassey

Cassey — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:21:29 +0000

Oh my lord…..this post could have been written by me. You touched places with this post that I have believed dealt with for months now. Honey, I am new to your blog and so you don’t have any reason to listen to a word I am saying. But, as someone who has been where you are, please know that eventually it does get better. I don’t agree with some of the other comments, simply because I am not one to deny and placate (at least, I am not today…lol) if that is not really the way I feel. When you say you are broken, that is the way you feel…and I disagree with you when you say you “should be over it by now” and that you are this way because it’s who you are, not because of who he was. NO!!! NO NO NO!!! You ARE this way because of who HE was! HE did this to you….but honey, YOU have to be the one to change it. We could wait our entire lives for the person who did this to us to come to us and say “I am so sorry, I was wrong, you are everything anyone could ask for. I love you.” But it is not going to happen. We are never going to have that healing conversation, because it is not in them to have it. Or to believe that it even matters. WE have to make the decision that no matter WHAT he said or did, we are wonderful just the way we are. And that is a VERY hard thing to realize. It’s like Julia Roberts said in Pretty Woman, “The bad stuff is easier to believe.” She is right….but we have to believe in the good stuff, too. You have a wonderful daughter who loves you SOO much! Would she love you so much if you were not the most perfect person in the world to her? And honestly….whose opinion matters more? His, or hers?

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By: ShredderFeeder

ShredderFeeder — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:44:12 +0000

And I totally get this.... You sure we're not related? it's funny how the people most likely to think they aren't enough, are usually the ones who are way more than enough. If that makes any kind of sense. Visit ShredderFeeder to read...My father…

By: crazymumma

crazymumma — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:08:06 +0000

And I hate him right along with you, and all the hims who practice the fine art of humiliation and abuse. Visit crazymumma to read...