We Are Enough
Hello beloved readers,
Today I’m resharing one of my poems I’m most proud of. I’m including the message that accompanied it when I first shared it here in January 2025.
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Last year, I watched Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, a phenomenal documentary about Mister Rogers, who created and hosted the children’s television show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.
It’s almost impossible to imagine someone like him existing in today’s world, and yet the wisdom and kindness he espoused are perhaps more necessary than ever.
Mister Rogers steadily insisted that every person was unique and valuable. He reminded us that “the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.” He helped us understand that we could talk about even our most challenging feelings, and that talking about our more difficult feelings could in time make them more manageable. And he told us, again and again, that we were all enough, just in the act of being ourselves.
So today, I wanted to share a poem of mine that reminds us of this truth. Our worth is inherent, not earned. How much more self-compassionate we might become if we were only able to remember this, especially in life’s more challenging seasons.
We Are Enough
We are enough on our darkest days
When the mind feels like it can’t go on,
We are enough on our longest nights
When we lie awake awaiting dawn.
We are enough at our most unwell,
At our most afraid and our most confused,
We are enough when our hearts are pained,
And our spirits ache and our souls are bruised.
We are enough when we feel we’re not
When we’re lost and don’t know what to do,
We are enough and we’ll always be;
Imagine if we only knew.
Wishing you lots of self-compassion,
Ari
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