The other day as I sat to have my brows trimmed, a lady walked in and commented "wow you have such lovely bushy (or did she say voluminous eyebrows), if I had such I would never trim them". Then I remembered, long ago I didn't use to trim them until when people commented that they were too bushy.Nothing wrong with trimming eyebrows, but if the reason is to be enough,then there is a challenge.
Those that know me know that I am not "physically endowed" I learnt this body type is called ectomorphs (finally i get somewhere to use my newly learnt word🤣) By and large , I am okay with my body size. Yet time and again, I interact with people that remind me that I need to be weighing more, at my age. Then others tell me they wish they could weigh what I weigh. The irony, I have observed, is the small want to be bigger, the bigger want to be smaller.
For some time now I have wished I had a deeper voice to compensate for my petite body, just so that I can be "more enough".
I ask again, are we ever enough? Who set the imaginary weight that we should weigh? Who set some of these standards that we all are trying to achieve? The unnecessary reminders that we are not good/beautiful/light/dark /tall/all the bla bla bla enough?
I have nothing against becoming a better version of yourself, by all means, be better tomorrow than today. However, looking at some of the absurd things happening in our society lately, many ladies (and maybe men) are struggling to be enough, to fit in, to be more acceptable to peers. If our self development is for us to fit into some imaginary bracket of "this is how we should be by now", then there is a problem.
On this Women's Day, I thought to remind you ( and myself) that you and I are enough. God made you fearfully and wonderfully. He knows you by name, you are engraved on the palm of His hands. He upholds you with His righteous right hand, you are His, you are loved, you are enough. Don't waste all your life trying to be "enough" You already are. In the end, what matters most is your identity in God, not the jury of public opinion.
