You Are Good Enough

What is that feeling that leads so many people to depression, cutting, eating disorders, bullying, suicide, drinking, abusing sex, and drugs? We all know it, we’ve all felt it before. It’s made us feel tiny, unwanted, and unloved.

It’s the feeling of not being good enough.

It comes from the pain of our past, the fear of our future. We were abused, misused, misled, misunderstood. No one cared. We were rejected. We were forgotten and we were yelled at for our mistakes and our differences. There is so much pain and hurt inside all of us.

Pain is inevitable.

In this life you will feel pain. Loved ones will die, parents will divorce. Things do go wrong at some point. The thing with pain though, is that you can carry it around with you, weighing you down or you can let it go and recalculate your path in life.

The first step to letting go, as Natasha Bedingfield would put it, is to open up your dirty window. Realize that the past is the past, there’s nothing you can do to erase it. Most people run from their past, letting it define who they are and how they act. There is another path, that is much more difficult, it will lead you to happiness.

Let go of your past and learn from your mistakes.

Stop running. Just stop. Take a second and think; what can I do in this moment to become a better person and lead a better life? Take all the lessons that you have learned, all the experiences that you have gone through and let them help you make better decisions in your future. Embrace who you are, your imperfections and all. Somebody loves you.

I just want you to know that you are good enough.