That’s the question that drives and plagues me.
Not as in those times when you’re having to endure hardship or abuse that goes on and on in an unhealthy relationship or when you have worked so hard toward a goal, perhaps a career, and it no longer seems to be within reach despite your best efforts. Well, it is a little bit of that, but in the larger sense… Specifically, am I enough? In almost any and every way imaginable.
am
i
enough?
What difference am I making on this earth? I was in Trader Joe’s a few weeks ago, I’m actually in TJ’s many times each week, but this exchange happened a few weeks back. I was making my way down the dry goods aisle when I noticed a young woman, which now means anyone between mid-30s and around 17. She was in all black with long sleeves and with some dark mascara as well. She was also only using her left hand as her right one was held close to her chest. I could just make out a tight black wrap making its way out her sleeve and around her wrist and hand. She was very careful with the way she maneuvered around what seemed clear to me to be an injury of some kind.
Now, I’ll talk to most anyone about anything. When Laura was pregnant with our firstborn about six months in, we were all about doing everything natural. Our pediatrician-to-be was the…