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Commentary On Being 'Enough' For People

A reminder to people that you are enough for the right people, and that the wrong people don't matter.

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Commentary On Being 'Enough' For People
Beauty & Sparkle

I am an older sister, even though I have no younger siblings by blood. So many of my friends are younger than me and we are so close that I consider them my younger brothers and sisters. So much of the time I am overly proud of them, and I can’t help but wonder at the people I am blessed to watch them grow into. But from many I often hear how they don’t think they’re good enough for someone or something. My heart breaks when I hear this, because I know how that feels. No one deserves to feel like that, to feel worthless or unwanted. So this is for them, and for anyone who has ever thought they aren’t “enough."

I can tell you right now that you will never be enough for some people, and sometimes those people are the ones you want approval from the most. But you need to know that they are not where the buck stops. In short they do not matter if they refuse to see you for what and who you are. They do not define your worth, nor does their indifference mar your value. There are a lot of people who will never see your value for what it really is. But those are the people who do not matter in your life and do not deserve to be in it.

The people who matter are the ones who try so hard to show you who you are through their eyes, the ones who make sure that you’re OK. The ones who matter are those who will give up sleep to spend time talking to you on Kik until 5 a.m. on a Thursday. The ones who matter are the ones who send you memes of beautiful things that are tagged “you” and stupid things tagged as the person you hate. The people you need to pay attention to are the ones who try to raise you up, the ones who make you happy and the ones who comfort you and cry with you when you look to those people who do none of these things. But no matter what, the people who matter will always see and remind you of your worth.

So those are the people you need to find. The people who will write fanfiction about you and your crush to make you feel better. Disregard the people that make you feel worthless, because they will never see the diamond forming from the coal that is you. You will never be enough for them, but that’s OK. Be enough for you. Be enough for the people who matter. Be enough for the person you want to be tomorrow. Be more than you are today. Be enough that the person you were at 5 years old would think you’re enough. Be the person that 5-year-old-you needed, because no one else will be. You are the only you that will ever be, and that makes you enough no matter what.

All I ask is that you remember that. Never forget that you are, and forever will be, more than enough.

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