When you feel like you’re not enough

What happens when you feel like you are not enough? The world is falling apart and you feel like nothing you do makes a difference, that you try and try but you don’t reach your goals, it’s like a race where you don’t reach the finish line and you can never finish running. This endless race tires you and there simply comes a time when it is unsustainable for you.

I have friends who tell me: “I feel like I’m not making an effort, that I’m not giving my all.” One of them told me that even after graduating from University she began to attend postgraduate courses, she had two jobs and even on Sundays she had volunteered in homeless shelters where she helped in soup kitchens to help homeless people.

The feeling of emptiness

My friend spent the rest of the weekend with me and our other friends and I really thought she was happy until we started talking more about the feeling she had that time was not enough for her, nor that the things she did They filled inside. “All the things I do make me see every day that I have to try harder but I can’t anymore, I have reached a point where I can’t give any more and I am getting depressed.” I became very worried about her and decided to take action on the matter because I began to fear for her health.

I feel that Many middle-aged people, professionals or not, with a job, stable life, family, can feel great social pressure about time, work, personal improvement. Certainly We live in a very competitive world where it matters a lot who you are, what you have achieved and where you work, but sometimes it happens that in this endless competition we set goals and goals and goals without thinking about what we have achieved up to this moment..

But continuing on this path of countless goals, of endless work, makes us at some point stop giving importance to the very fact of achieving something, of creating something, which is why we fall into a compulsive state in which we can no longer stop searching for our “Golden”. The same thing was happening to my friend.

Advice for my friend

– “High”. Stop trying too hard even if you think it’s essential. The only thing you should feel vital is the search for your own happiness.
– Appreciate the efforts you make in your daily life. Think about what you have done, the goals you have achieved, the friends you have and value every effort and achievement you have obtained.
– Value yourself as a person regardless of whether you think you still have a lot to achieve.. Remember that a person is not just about their titles or their activities, it is also about the quality of their time, what they do for themselves, the way they take care of themselves and seek their well-being.

I tell you the same thing, it is possible that many times you think that you are not enough, that you do not give the best of yourself but if you take into account what I told my friend you will realize that you have done many things in your life. life and that counts.