Life's Proverbial Questions!

As I have walked through this life and journey among the world, I have noticed that we live in a world where enough is never quite....well....ENOUGH!

Hear me out here.

You are single and you always get the proverbial questions of, "Anyone in your life? Why are you single?" It is a constant bombardment of questions as to WHY you are single...as if being single is not enough.

Then, you finally find someone to spend some time with and then the proverbial questions of, "Is it serious? What's the deal?" Yada, yada, yada

Then you confirm it is and the next becomes the next to the next and the next....
When are you getting engaged?
You have a date picked yet?
When are you going to get a house?
What's the plan for kids?
Congrats on that kid....when's the next one?

OYE! It never ends!

So it drives me to ask, "When is enough enough or will it ever be quite enough?"

I believe we live in a world that is constantly driving us towards wanting more.

A while back, I dated a man that one day looked at me and told me, "I am content." I was like, "What the heck is THAT supposed to mean! How rude! Content?? WTFlip! You aren't ecstatic with our time together? You aren't over the moon about our conversations? Content?!?!" To say the least, I was offended.

Obviously, that little space in time began and ended. But I look back on that moment when he said that to me and I understand it now. I understand it now because today, it is my heart's cry. I just want to be content. Webster defines content as, "to appease the desires of".
Him saying that he was content could very well have been the biggest compliment he could have ever given me. But me, in my typical rest-of-the-world way, wanted to be more; it was not enough.

So as I go through this great life, still desiring so many things, everyday, I am learning to be content with the place I am in. No, it doesn't mean that I am apathetic and desire nothing more, but as far as trying to live up to all the proverbial questions and the more I have been so accustomed to chasing, I am learning that enough is really quite enough and I am content.