Ask anyone around you- a friend, a parent,a sibling,a passer by or even yourself about “WHAT IS ENOUGH?” You will be astounded by the amount of head scratching, sky gaping and painfully long gaps taken before a very inconclusive or oddly abstract answer is muttered. It gets better; the answer is not just incomprehensible to the listener but almost always leaves the person asked with an unsettled feeling. The type of feeling one gets moments after having completed packing for a long trip or after having crammed an all nighter before a killer final, like something is amiss. You know the feeling, all of us have been there one too many times and no matter how hard we rattle our mind trying to pin it, it is a mission impossible.
It is the one question we never satisfactorily answer, the one thing that we are never ever sure about. In fact the answer to that question has been debated and still remains controversial among various disciplines and schools of thoughts. Being curious of course is one of the defining character of our race, and when faced with a question, we can’t have it unanswered. We have to know. We have to have an answer. So when faced with the “WHAT IS ENOUGH?” question, we declared it absolutely normal to not know what enough is. It is what fuels humanity and civilization, the fact that we never stop, the fact that we are never satisfied, the fact that we always want more.
Mind you, if being unsatisfied is the corner stone of our civilization then how can happiness and equity be our virtue? On the other hand if we are satisfied with what we have then how can we advance our race, our civilization and what will be our legacy. The Oxford dictionary defines ‘ENOUGH’ as much or as many as desirable or necessary. When we have a dynamic need like most of us do, does it mean that we are doomed to unsatisfaction? Does it mean that we will have to spend the rest of our lives chasing a moving target? Or does it mean that many of the things that we think we need are most often simply the things that we want? Is there a difference between what we want and what we need? Should there be a limit on anyone?
Our world, our race is faced with the difficult task of drawing the line between what is needed and what is wanted. The very essence of the word ‘ENOUGH’ lies between this two. We need to progress but there are lines which we can’t afford to cross. We only need to be unsatisfied enough so as not to be complacent. We should learn fast that what we need to have is often a world away from what we want to have. Our needs may not be curtailed but our wants can be easily restricted. Through our history, our inability to distinguish between our needs and wants in both our personal as well as social life has cost us dearly. Our environment and health are among the things that we have unnecessarily compromised. We are at a time where we need to make changes starting from our personal life. We need to recognize that our choices come with a cost that is threatening our future and existence as a race. It’s time to make a choice, Be Happy say’ ENOUGH’ ,Be healthy say ‘ENOUGH’ ,save yourself say ‘ENOUGH’ , save tomorrow say ‘ENOUGH’ save our planet say ‘ENOUGH’!!!!
It is the one question we never satisfactorily answer, the one thing that we are never ever sure about. In fact the answer to that question has been debated and still remains controversial among various disciplines and schools of thoughts. Being curious of course is one of the defining character of our race, and when faced with a question, we can’t have it unanswered. We have to know. We have to have an answer. So when faced with the “WHAT IS ENOUGH?” question, we declared it absolutely normal to not know what enough is. It is what fuels humanity and civilization, the fact that we never stop, the fact that we are never satisfied, the fact that we always want more.
Mind you, if being unsatisfied is the corner stone of our civilization then how can happiness and equity be our virtue? On the other hand if we are satisfied with what we have then how can we advance our race, our civilization and what will be our legacy. The Oxford dictionary defines ‘ENOUGH’ as much or as many as desirable or necessary. When we have a dynamic need like most of us do, does it mean that we are doomed to unsatisfaction? Does it mean that we will have to spend the rest of our lives chasing a moving target? Or does it mean that many of the things that we think we need are most often simply the things that we want? Is there a difference between what we want and what we need? Should there be a limit on anyone?
Our world, our race is faced with the difficult task of drawing the line between what is needed and what is wanted. The very essence of the word ‘ENOUGH’ lies between this two. We need to progress but there are lines which we can’t afford to cross. We only need to be unsatisfied enough so as not to be complacent. We should learn fast that what we need to have is often a world away from what we want to have. Our needs may not be curtailed but our wants can be easily restricted. Through our history, our inability to distinguish between our needs and wants in both our personal as well as social life has cost us dearly. Our environment and health are among the things that we have unnecessarily compromised. We are at a time where we need to make changes starting from our personal life. We need to recognize that our choices come with a cost that is threatening our future and existence as a race. It’s time to make a choice, Be Happy say’ ENOUGH’ ,Be healthy say ‘ENOUGH’ ,save yourself say ‘ENOUGH’ , save tomorrow say ‘ENOUGH’ save our planet say ‘ENOUGH’!!!!
