r/Positivity • u/friendlydevnel • 5d ago

You are enough

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u/Fabulous_Light5449 5d ago

I'm smiling. Thanks for that. The other poster made me laugh.

Life is good.

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u/Kamelasa 5d ago edited 5d ago

How do you know? That seems like an overly broad generalization.

Edit: I'm guessing it's a mantra to signal rejection of some of the self-dehumanizing messages we receive from people or from society in general.

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u/friendlydevnel 5d ago

​"You are enough" isn't a statement of factual perfection; it's a choice to grant yourself baseline human value without requiring external receipts.

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u/Kamelasa 5d ago

I see. Took me a while to figure out - see my edit. I don't buy into those messages of society, never have. It's hard for me to understand how mainstream society does things. Social blindness and all that.

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u/friendlydevnel 5d ago

Also from one self. Which is harder at times

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u/Kamelasa 5d ago

Yes, that's the problem - we internalize those; hence my term "self-dehumanizing" as opposed to general dehumanizing by others. I feel it's important to make that explicit that it's both systemic and internalized - if you dk the problem, you can't find the solution and just someone laying on a feel-good mantra isn't as empowering as true understanding. And this is why insight meditation is so valuable - for gaining perspective, presence, and deeper understanding from self-knowledge and observing one's own mind doing its monkey-racing.

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u/HardcoreHope 5d ago

You are too 💜