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by Mani Padisetti
We hop from one trend to another, like bees desperate for nectar, but we never truly land long enough to taste the sweetness within.
We bend and twist, practising every yoga pose, stretching ourselves into the shapes of others, hoping that if we contort just right, we’ll find what we’ve been searching for.
We devour the wisdom of the world, stuffing our minds with ancient texts and modern philosophies, but all the while, we ignore the most profound book of all—the one written in our own souls.
But we are enough. Not in some vague, self-help way but in the raw, unvarnished reality of it.
We are enough in our darkness and our light, in the parts of us that are polished and those that are jagged.
Yet, we run as if the truth were a predator and we the prey, terrified that if we stopped, it would catch up to us.
We’ve mastered the art of distraction, moving from one thing to the next, never staying still long enough to look in the mirror and see what’s really there.
Jung knew this about us.
He knew we’d do anything—anything—to avoid facing ourselves.
We’ll meditate until our legs are numb, fast until our stomachs growl, and chant until our voices are hoarse, all to keep from hearing the whisper that’s been there all along: We are enough.
We, in all our messy, imperfect glory.
To face ourselves, to truly and brutally see ourselves, would mean acknowledging the parts of us that don’t fit the Instagram-worthy narrative we’ve created.
It would mean integrating the shadows we’ve cast aside, the flaws we’ve buried, the “bad” parts we’ve disowned.
It would mean realising that the very things we’ve tried so hard to escape are the things that make us whole.
We’re terrified of what we’ll see if we stop running—because deep down, we fear that our darkness, our flaws, our ugliness will consume us.
But what if the opposite is true?
What if, by embracing those parts of ourselves, we actually find peace?
What if, by staring into the void, we discover that the darkness isn’t something to fear but something to accept, something that makes the light within us even brighter?
It’s time to stop running.
Time to stop pretending that the next book, the next job, or the next person will finally make us complete.
It’s time to look in the mirror.
To really see ourselves—all of ourselves—and to know that what we see is enough.
The truth is, the only thing we’ve been searching for is the one thing we’ve refused to face.
And until we do, nothing in the world will save us from the truth staring back at us.
When we finally face ourselves, we can begin to calm down, to accept the world as it is, and to embrace the reality that we are both light and shadow, good and bad.
In that acceptance, we find wholeness, and in wholeness, we find peace.
And it’s in that peace that we truly see—we are enough.