This Moment is Enough

When I read something that touches my mind and soul I want to share it with you! Rosemary

I was in a plane descending into Portland for a quick
stopover, and I gazed upon a brilliant pink sunrise over
blue and purple mountains, and my heart ached.
Instinctively, I looked over to Eva to share this
breath-taking moment, but she was sleeping. I felt
incomplete, not being able to share the moment with her, or
with anyone. Its beauty was slipping through my fingers.
This was a teachable moment for me: I somehow felt this
moment wasn’t enough, without being able to share it. It
took me a second to remind myself: this moment is enough.
It’s enough, without needing to be shared or photographed or
improved or commented upon. It’s enough, awe-inspiring just
as it is.
I’m not alone in this feeling, that the moment needs to be
captured by photo to be complete, or shared somehow on
social media. It’s the entire reason for Instagram,
for instance.
We feel the moment isn’t enough unless we talk about it,
share it, somehow solidify it. The moment is ephemeral, and
we want solidity and permanence. This kind of groundlessness
can scare us.
This feeling of not-enoughness is fairly pervasive in
our lives:
- We sit down to eat and feel we should be reading something
online, checking messages, doing work. As if eating the food
weren’t enough.

- We get annoyed with people when they don’t act as we want
them to — the way they are feels like it’s not enough.

- We feel directionless and lost in life, as if the life we
have is not already enough.

- We procrastinate when we know we should sit down to do
important work, going for distractions, as if the work is
not enough for us.

- We always feel there’s something else we should be doing,
and can’t just sit in peace.

- We mourn the loss of people, of the past, of traditions …
because the present feels like it’s not enough.

- We are constantly thinking about what’s to come, as if it’s
not enough to focus on what’s right in front of us.

- We constantly look to improve ourselves, or to improve
others, as if we and they are not already enough as we are.

- We reject situations, reject people, reject ourselves,
because we feel they’re not enough.

What if we accepted this present moment, and everyone and
everything in it, as exactly enough?
What if we needed nothing more?
What if we accepted that this moment will slip away when
it’s done, and saw the fleeting time we had with the moment
as enough, without needing to share it or capture it?
What if we said yes to things, instead of rejecting them?
What if we accepted the “bad” with the good, the failures
with the attempts, the irritating with the beautiful, the
fear with the opportunity, as part of a package deal that
this moment is offering us?
What if we paused right now, and saw everything in this
present moment around us (including ourselves), and just
appreciated it for what it is, as perfectly enough?
Article by zenhabits.net