It’s an awfully funny word. Intricate and complicated in so many ways. A contradiction in itself.
Enough is a blanket term, a term of measurement, a term used to determine the limit of something. However, everybody has different limits. The word enough even has limits. You can have enough pasta and no longer be hungry, and yet you can be given enough time and still not be able to accomplish a task. You can have enough knowledge about something to pass a test, and yet that amount of enough might not be enough information for another person to pass the same test. A mother yelling enough to her kids might insinuate that they need to stop. A boy telling a girl she is enough for him might indicate the beginning of a long road of new possibilities. There are endless variations.
What is it that characterizes something as enough? Is there a universal checklist somewhere? Is there some three-page quiz in a tacky, teenage magazine that contains the required materials for something to be considered enough? Why are there so many people out there so broadly considered to be enough and yet their enough still isn’t enough? How can we use such a general term to be such a major factor in determining people’s worth, abilities and potential? Topics as delicate and deep and unique as those deserve a word that shares the same importance and specificity.
Vagueness is the enemy of individuals.
Individuals searching for their right place, right people, right purpose. Each minute of these individual’s lives being different from one another, making them impossible to be universally perfect for one another. Individuals looking for answers and corrections and new paths so that they can continue to grow and develop as separate people. Separate people with separate thoughts and separate characteristics and separate limits. Limits that cannot be described by a word as general as:
Enough.