When I was young, extremely young I was told that I spoke in complete sentences before even a year of age. I suppose that is why I find the written word so fascinating and I would say that I nearly revere it; but at times it is definitely confounding for me and my own interpretations while using it as I have displayed many a time here in this venue. Perhaps, I could use my MS, Fibro fog, menopause, old age as an excuse in this last decade?
One word that I thought that I would like to explore tonight is one that all of us have used many, many times and for this I am sure.
It is the word, enough.
“I have had enough!”
“My cup is full enough!”
“Enough already!”
The above are some of the examples of how we have used this very common utilitarian word, don’t you think?
About a dozen years ago or so I met an octogenarian who to me appeared exceptionally wise, not because of her age alone but because of how she knew to express her words. And yes, she used the word enough let us just say in a way that this commonality of reality of a recession has made many of us have to readjust our lifestyles in the reference to learning to live with enough of what we actually need; not what we want. I give this woman kudos for being largely responsible for our lives not being even more difficult than they could have been. You see, when we scaled down eleven years ago to this lovely little cottage home her enough went through my brain, and so you see we have been able to manage much more successfully than perhaps we might have been. That lovely person has since died; it was only a few months after we moved here, but I think of her often, and her words of wisdom.
And now the rest of the world is conforming to the necessity of enough. Many of these older people have been through so much in their own lives that listening to them is where we should all regain some wisdom: wouldn’t that be nice?
It’s true all of us have been there…keeping up with the Joneses.
When we were young married people our children wanted for nothing we had the big home; two of ours were five and four bedrooms, three had swimming pools. They had surfboards, SCUBA gear, fishing, water skied and we had boats always, we lived near or by the water. Don’t get me wrong we worked our buts off to get all that, and as teens and college students so did our sons. But to what resolve?
Our sons grew up, went to college and moved away.
Both of them being single these days they pretty much have lives that are not family oriented yet, we can only hope that will change someday.
And so when we became empty nesters more than a decade ago we could now readjust our wants and needs and so we did and it was to have …enough!
I wish the world would be as lucky to find their enough.
On that pleasant thought I will bid you all good night and to be safe and count those blessings and I will too!
Speaking My Mind is about: Tobi, who is a middle aged, no, oh all right a slightly over the hill woman with all the imperfections that go with that, and this concerns her daily life's perceptions and experiences.
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