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- In which John wonders whether enough is actually enough.
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John,You don't get to getaway with that belated Intro
I hate car horns and that is enough.
*GIVE ME YOUR STUFF!* -JC
@@JCResDoc94 owowhhh
I’ve been trying to explain this concept for years. “Enough” is a relief that hit me with an overwhelming strength in my early twenties, after years of sleeping in living rooms and eating only the day-old pastries from work. When I was promoted to manager at that restaurant, my whole life changed. Now, two promotions later, I’m in an office job with my own apartment and a cat, and it is so incredibly ENOUGH.
Currently in my early 20s sleeping in friends closets for years stage of my life and I still feel like I’m happier than anyone rich or famous
Isn’t it incredible how simply having that perspective and not allowing oneself to forget where they came from can have such a profound effect on your overall sense of happiness and well-being? There are so many things going wrong every day but knowing, without a doubt that it could be (and was once) worse is an absolute gift.
Yes! How great it is for me to finally be in a house that I OWN after more than 25 moves in my 34 years! It's small, but it's enough.
Yes! I was fortunate enough to start feeling enough when I finally got promoted this August, money is still tight but I feel so much more stable and like I can finally start keeping afloat and growing instead of always trying not to sink. The palpable relief from financial anxiety I've held in a knot since I was eight unspiraling has been incredible. I'm so glad that even when there is so much wrong in the world, we're able to make little, positive steps that add up and I hope others can too.
@@JenLee66 yes congrats!!!
_“Is not dread of thirst when your well is full,_
_the thirst that is unquenchable?”_
I just want to exploit the fact that the spotlight is on this comment,
to mention that it’s widely speculated that Kahlil Gibran wrote *_The Prophet_* (arguably the most influential/widespread poetic work in history) after meeting with and being profoundly inspired by a man called ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, the son of the founder of my religion, the Bahá’í Faith. The similarities between the central character, Al Mustafa, and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá are numerous and notable.
While never officially becoming a Bahá’í, once at a prayer gathering Gibran stood up and said, “I declare, that ‘Abdu’l-Bahá is the Manifestation of god for this Day!” and soon afterwards ran out of the hall crying.
He confused the station of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá with that of his father, but it shows you what a profound impact he had on him.
He later divulged that a few of his other books including *_Son of Man_* were based on/inspired by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.
That's really profound.
@@ottomatic7997 Ooh, scary.
@@ottomatic7997 it is said that even the lowly grouse possesses the Buddha-nature. It is also said that, if you see the Buddha in the road, you should strike him down. So, we may conclude that, if we see a grouse in the road, we should strike him down. And you know what that means? Chicken nuggets.
what an amazing quote, thanks for sharing
"when rich people only spend time around rich people, they don't feel rich. They feel normal." This is absolutely true.
Also works with intelligence
#UniLife
Most people judge wealth comparatively. That's why so many Americans describe themselves as poor while being so much more well off then the vast majority of the world
But rich people do so to not feel rich. They do not want to be reminded of how much more they have, or how different the needs of the poor, the regular people are.
But spending time around poor people makes them uncomfortable
I like normal.
This is why it’s different when everybody has enough together. We’re all drops in a bucket, and the strongest ripples start closest to the source. A community that prioritizes giving leads to a culture of giving. Kinda like Nerdfighteria.
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Enough together are the two words I needed to see next to each other. It perfectly expresses what I have been trying to say in endless words fuelled by anxiety about the future and what we can do for tomorrow.
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Once one of us has enough, our goal should be to give enough to everyone else.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 I'd say if we're striving for "enough" for only one, we've already missed the opportunity of growing enough for all.
This title really scared me as someone worried John is going to parent my overconsumption of Halloween candy
Enjoy your candy! -John
There is never enough Halloween candy xD
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Made me smile, thanks 😊
The title is like a Rorschach test.
3:04 I heard a great analogy for this once: a country is like a big hotel with lots of floors. The floors are sorted by income, ie. the richest people are at the top and the poorest at the bottom. You can go and visit people in the hotel, but you can only ever travel three floors up or down. I feel it reflects the way our societal structures keep people in groups of roughly similar economic position quite well. The result being, obviously, most people, especially those that are better off, feel like there somewhere in the middle. Definitely not rich, but not poor either.
That's a great analogy. But I'd add to it that people actually CAN travel more than three floors up/down, but the wealthy often choose not to. -John
@@vlogbrothers Yes, that's definitely more accurate!
@@vlogbrothers And even more often the poor are unable to go to the other floors because of systems that hinder their progression.
@@vlogbrothers perhaps the analogy should be that the elevators only go 3 floors up or down. You CAN walk down the stairs but it takes effort. And walking up the stairs is even harder, and that's just to visit.
This reminds me of the film The Platform
I am a person who doesn't have enough of most things. I struggle to afford clothing, and I struggle to afford food. I am often in a state of generalized frustration at those that take these things for granted. Thank you for acknowledging that you have things others don't. It makes the divide a little more bearable.
I feel the frustration as well! It's so deep in me at this point and I try so hard not to be bitter about it especially to friends who have enough and who never had to feel this frustration. But then again they have their own frustration against biases or other discrimination targeting them. But money rules the world and like John said, having enough money secures a lot! Wishing you a status of 'enough' that makes your mind easier and your sleep more restful 💚
Food and insurance would be nice
You have a pay pal or cash app?
I finally got a good engineering job at 35 after being homeless multiple times. I would love to help with $75
ditto to all of this.
How much do you need to cover your monthly food bills?
"Too often in trying to insulate myself...from the realities of suffering, I am also looking away from injustice, inequity, impoverishment" if having enough means turning away from these realities, then 'enough' is too much.
Thank you, John. I'm saving this so I can quote it frequently in the various conversations I have around various parts of the internet.
As someone who sufferes from constant existential anxiety, this is actually really calming. Thank you.
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Existential anxiety is my best friend at this point
How? It's just a reminder that it is all futile.
By far, the BEST Policy Genius ad that John’s made.
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“We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.” -Dorothy Day
❤️
I love DD
“It grows in the form of more kids growing to adulthood, and more people having access to educational opportunities, and so on. And that growth is much more transformational than the appreciation of stocks.”
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This really hit me, especially since I’m now at the age where people are starting to advise me to invest in stocks.
^ This is, like, the entire point of charity
This one resonated with me, as I always wish for money to be able to generate more money to give away, but doubting I could get there.
Look, John, in our uncertain times, I'm not sure we're prepared for you to begin a video without immediately greeting Hank.
I recently learned about steady state economies, and I'm starting to think that ought to be the goal rather than constant econonic growth. Also I'm personally grateful to you and Hank for how thoughtful you are about your wealth. Hank paid my roommate's rent when the pandemic hit, because they worked at his favorite coffee shop. He didn't have to be proximal to their suffering, but he was.
Oh my god that's so sweet 🥺
I feel "enough is too much" every day of my life. I'm in an odd position where I was raised poor, but got a nice and stable job right out of college. (And I got through college without loans thanks to very generous financial aid.) So now I'm doing remarkably well, but my parents aren't. My brother's family isn't. My friends from highschool aren't. I try to help where I can but while I have a lot, I don't have enough to help everyone out of everything. I'm always overwhelmed with what I have, and what the people I love don't have.
“Everyone I know and love will die”…omg, John, I’m still dwelling on how I have no savings, give me a minute.
Wow. My dad passed away this morning - a man who always dreamed of making a huge impact but never thought he did. This gives me comfort knowing his impact was immeasurable. Thanks, John!
My dad died in September. Probably feeling the same way as yours. But as we planned the funeral, I discovered just how much impact he had. May you discover the same in the coming days.
I'm sorry to hear of the losses in this thread. I lost my dad 5 years ago and it was devastating. I wish you peace during this moment. And I hope it can be a time to reflect on the memories you have and to celebrate them even as you grieve.
I am so sorry for your loss
I am glad this video came to you at this time
Jews have a word for this in Hebrew: Dayenu (dye-AY-new). It means “enough” and we use it like “I already had everything I could have ever hoped for, and now I am blessed with more!”
It makes me think of the book “The ones who walk away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin. Sometimes we realise our happiness and wealth is at the expense of others but we often choose to act as if we don’t know. That makes me sad
When you said "I have insurance to make my life less precarious." I thought you were about to make a very clever pivot to a Policy Genius ad.
I thought the same especially after rewatching yesterday's patreon livestream!😁
“When rich people hang out with only rich people they stop feeling like rich people”.
That’s going to stick with me for a long time. It’s making me reflect on the fact that after college, I really only have surround myself with a certain socioeconomic class of people. I’d say mid to upper middle class with 4 year+ degrees and steady jobs. It wasn’t intentional, but I can feel how our collective problems are not the same as others’ might be and I don’t want to forget that I am essentially a “rich” person.
Something I've struggled a lot with is the feeling of "enough". I constantly question mentally "am I good enough" or "am I doing enough". And this was a good video to remind me that I do still have "enough". But the feeling from "enough" remains difficult to hide from.
Once upon a time I got some feedback in an employee review, "Richard seems to think that acceptable is good enough." Yeah, I do. Because I know words and what they mean. Acceptable IS good enough. It has to be. Some years later, I had to deal with a number of people who weren't content with a score of 97% and worked so much to get that up to 100% they missed the deadline, hurting themselves when the 97% was literally given the score "Excellent." I told them, "Sometimes excellent is good enough." I don't ever want to live in any world where acceptable isn't good enough. Life is too short for that nonsense. You are the only person who can judge if you are good enough or doing enough. Ultimately you are the ONLY person who can make those judgments. You have to be. Don't let anyone else tell you different.
I just came to comment that. I don't feel good enough in any area of my life and what sucks even more is that sometimes I can overhear people confirming my fears which sucks so much.
That’s exactly what I thought at 2:46
@@journalsbysophie The opinion of jerks really shouldn't matter. I mean...they're jerks.
The journey to healthy self-esteem is sometimes a long and difficult one, but it's so worth it. You are enough.
Reminds me of a word my family in Sweden mentions, “lagom” or “lagom är bäst”, meaning “enough” or “the right amount (enough) is best”. Which from the time I’ve spent in Sweden seems to be a commonly held belief.
John the type of guy who gets every kind of insurance the agent offers
Literally though. :) -John
John Green: exceptionally practical.
I have been thinking about this so much lately. We made the choice to have my husband be a stay-at-home dad, and it allows our child to have a calm toddlerhood, but ironically makes our financial stability feel less calm. And it limits the money and energy we have to give outside our home. It's the right choice for right now, but I feel like I'm always searching for ways I can do more.
I know this feeling all too well
My wife and I made the decision for me to be a stay-at-home-dad because 1: we were both night shift workers and the world horribly discriminates against the ≈ 40% of the population that keep the world functioning while y'all sleep. An example off this is that they're is no such thing as night-care, only day-care.
2: if she goes to day shift she loses 25% of her income, of I go to day shift I lose my job. Also she is a nurse and I'm in IT, and she earns 3x what I do. 3: a month of paying someone to watch our child while we are both at work would cost over 60% of my income. 4: because the world discriminates against night shift workers, our baby has to be awake during the day for doctor's appointments, and eventually school.
@@iwontliveinfear This has really made me think more about the issues for people who work nights. My stepdad works nights but luckily he is too old now to have to worry about raising kids. I always wonder how on earth he manages to wake up early at weekends and not horribly mess up his sleep pattern but I guess it's his only choice if he actually wants to do anything during his time off
I heard a quote from Mark Twain the other day that is along the lines of, “Comparison is the death of joy.” Since I heard that I have been convincing myself that I am and what I create is “enough”. It is a hard process to go through, but this video helped me with it.
Ahhh I loved this immediately and when I Googled it to get more info, I suddenly had advice teling me that everyone said it from C.S. Lewis, to Theodore Roosevelt, to the Bible!... 😅 And now I have no clue really, still, but I guess that's okay ❤
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I've been thinking about this a lot during the pandemic, and feeling like we're only exploring this comraderie of 'in it together' while we feel somehow 'dragged down' to the level of those regular victims of poverty, disease and imprisonment. Like we've joined a club to not feel so alone and scared. As soon as we feel we 'have enough' again - vaccination status, contingiencies, freedom etc., we'll go back to looking away from those who remain without. We won't be 'in it together' for very much longer.
see also, US booster shot hording demands while the world faces insane degree of vaccine scarcity for first dosages
Lol we were never in it together 2% of the African population had access to vaccines when Canada was hoarding 5× the amount it needed
You know--and this isn't meant to reflect on you--I've been thinking through all this that the people who say that we're all in it together are pretty blind to the fact that all the discomfort they're facing is just temporary. For many, many people, even pre-pandemic life was already harder than what many complainers are experiencing now.
It's weird what some people consider to be suffering. I've gotten to know some people better over the past year and a half, and I have a lot less respect for them.
@@rebeccabilly7466 Totally agree! I've found the term quite flippant and meaningless when I've heard it banded around for this reason!
@@rebeccabilly7466 As a disabled person, BIG THIS.
Thanks for this nuance- it's so easy to get lost in the everyday and forget to be a citizen of the world. Last week a friend visiting remarked that I live in a beautiful city- which I had forgotten to find beautiful for a while- I noticed it again. Thank you for reminding me that I am a citizen of a global whole and to be less stingy with what I can give even while a graduate student and living in what I consider to me meager means (while still having a roof over my head and enough to eat). I have enough to need to invest it back into the world for the good of those I've never met. Thanks, John. As always, the truth resists simplicity.
This paired really well with John Oliver’s recent piece on homelessness and the desire of the houses to avoid having to see the unhoused.
Can you post the link? I searched but I'm not sure if 3 months ago is "recent". :-)
@@theplaceofpeace czcams.com/video/liptMbjF3EE/video.html
@@theplaceofpeace Entitled "Homelessness: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver"; posted 1st Nov 2021.
“The richest person in the world is not the one who has the most but the one who needs the least.” - Joseph Simmons
This was one of those vlogbrothers videos that flipped my world upside-down. Both my favourite and least favourite kind of video, because it is a wonderful experience to watch such a video, but it can feel devastating knowing that 4 minutes ago, I was not thinking about this topic as meaningfully as I could have been.
Part of the problem is it takes a lot to live on a little. Living “simply” or “minimalist” actually requires quite a bit. What we often see in practice is boutique minimalism obtained by playing the acquisition game and then cosmetically downsizing on certain external arrangements but backed up by squirreled away wealth that both insulates the person from the risks of simplicity as well as allowing for a regularly-occasional vacation from that “simple” lifestyle with a splurge vacation into luxury again.
Some years back a woman on youtube posted about how she lives on a poverty-level income (and you can, too!). But her expenses were only the day-to-day ones such as food, utilities, auto insurance and gas, pet food, and not much else. Her house was paid for, her nice truck was paid for, and she was paying property taxes, insurance and maintenance, and health insurance out of some store of money she had......but because that money wasn't from her paycheck, she just didn't think it was offsetting her "poverty" income (it was not poverty-level wages, btw, she was working part-time at a well-paying job). Needless to say, the comments were brutal, and her responses showed that she just was not understanding how she did not "live in poverty".
I’m in my last semester student teaching to become a math teacher. My family around me always talk about salary prospects of my career and where else I could go to increase that financial security. It’s taken me so long to wrap my head around choosing that fulfillment and happiness over the of money and the lessened anxiety. I hope someday I’ll be able realize that I have enough.
Hey my local high school has been looking for a math teacher for so long that the principal is gonna have to do it. Thank you for teaching!
You're doing so much good in this world!! We need math teachers especially now more than ever and we can't ever thank teachers like you enough for your service.
This is why I have been subscribed to Vlogbrothers for over a decade. Thanks for making the world a better place yall. DFTBA
Precarity is a word I didn't have for the situation I'm in.
If nothing else, you've given me a definition. I've found that definitions help.
And so you have helped me. Thanks, John.
Thanks John. I wrestle with this alot, not because I don’t feel like I have enough. I feel like I have too much without an accurate perspective on what is enough. I’ve lived most of my life privileged to have more than enough and that warped my perspective.
Now, I’m grown and have a sense of having way too much, but I have a family who often behave as if they don’t have enough and it creates a struggle within the family. There’s no consensus on what enough is.
And, of course with being a dad, I often feel like no one is particularly interested in my notion of what constitutes “enough.”
Holidays are coming up, Y’all. Let’s do our best to make sure everyone has enough. Many of us have had too much for too long.
"By the way, good morning Hank it's Tuesday"
Hank: and I took that personally
I disagree so much that it's impossible to get far enough from precarity - it isn't possible through individual action or savings, but as a community we can all work together to be collectively far from precarity. A real social safety net and strong communities should do that
Wow, that was powerful. As someone who has been trying for years to build himself up so he could have "enough" to ensure the protection and success of his future family, this hits home. I'd never considered that "enough"-ness to potentially be a bad thing, something that could in itself end up being too much. Thank you for your perspective on this, John.
I was so disoriented for a sec when you didn't say "good morning Hank it's Tuesday"
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Right? I restarted the video because I thought I skipped over it or missed it somehow
Something felt off and it took a few seconds for it to register.
There's also the saying to never have more than you need
and for this the Pythagorean cup is a great example. Inspired by the Egyptians, the concept is that Pythagoras thought that if you had more than five ounces of wine, you had too much. So with the cup, if you have five ounces of a drink, it's just fine. But when you pour more than five ounces, the whole drink spills from below the cup.
Having enough to prevent our own suffering is an absolute good. From there, the best of us will expand to make life better for everyone.
I aspire to that.
Well stated
You and your brother ARE our great philosophers of this era. Insightful and promoting ideas and beliefs which are so profound and yet conveyed in ways that reach the masses. Truly remarkable content on such a high frequency. I am thankful that I have enough and yet I simply cannot get enough of your content... 💗
Speaking of enoughness.. This channel is enough to keep me afloat and for that I’ll always be thankful.
I feel like I’ve been getting more fulfillment and life lessons from these weekly VlogBrothers videos than I ever did from a lifetime of church.
I just realized that I never watch Johns videos full-screen, - only in framed, contained and safe environments. Because I need distance to his words, if i'm to close, they hit too hard, I need room to catch what he is throwing, else it hits me in the face and it hurts, but without changing. With a bit of room, I can protect myself and still take it in. Thank you , John.
there is so much packed in here that requires constant rewatching.
i really really really appreciate when you and Hank talk about what it's like to live with so much money that you can afford to do work and give all profits away. what a beautiful luxury and it reminds me that sometimes the reason i don't accomplish as many things as other people isn't because i'm stupid or garbage or lazy, it's because i can't afford to...
I came into this communty late in the game (during the pandemic), but these videos by both John and Hank fill me with warmth and optimism. It's lovely to know that there are intelligent, kind, and thoughtful people in this world; and that you two specifically have a huge community of like-minded individuals who support and cherish you. It reminds me that not everything is awful, and that's so important. Thanks for being you.
Is there anybody else on the internet who talks about this? It has become core to my values over the years, thanks to John and Hank
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Thank you for this video.
hi Mr. Beat
Thanks John and Hank for being the awesomest people!
My CZcams is forever littered with your binges.
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This is great, John. Thank you. Although my family is in the worst financial state now that it's been in years due to hurricane damage and complications working with FEMA, my family has been living well below the poverty line since my mom was a little girl - all while being surrounded by the same kind of people who don't want affordable housing built because their property values will go down. You and a select few others really give me hope, especially when you encourage people to venture outside of their own little bubble a little bit to see what's going on with the rest of us :)
I feel like having "enough" also has something to do with autonomy and if you're able to get enough for yourself or do something about it if you're not getting enough
Enough - I love it. I have enough of most things. What I lack is enough freedom to control my space (because it's not just my space and the people I share it with don't share my desires). I have always wanted a home full of people, I tell my kids and their friends that the door is always open, call if you need, I will pick you up and help out however I can. Many of my dds friends are neurodivergent and struggling or just depressed in not great homes. My heart cries out for them but I can't give what I don't have.
This was so deep that I had to watch it twice. Thanks John. As someone who began life in poverty and now finds themselves upper-middle class, I hope to return to this though frequently to maintain perspective as I insulate myself from precarity
This video has really stuck with me, and I came back to watch it again. This quote in particular I find very powerful (I believe it's my favorite John Green quote so far, which is saying a lot):
“I forget that I have enough because in trying to insulate myself from precarity, I can also make myself distant from the reality of suffering, and if I were more proximal to that suffering, I would use more of my resources to try to alleviate it.
And too often in trying to insulate myself and those I love from the realities of suffering, I am also looking away from injustice and inequity and impoverishment, and if having enough means having enough to not have to face those realities, then enough is simply too much.”
John, thank you for reminding me that I have enough. I live in a third world country and I'm constantly bombarded with the images of the impoverished and you become so numb to the street kids who are trying to sell you toilet paper that you forget that they actually have lives outside of that snapshot and irritation as they approach you at traffic lights. I am fortunate enough to have a job that pays for the roof over my head and the food on my plate and provides me with the joy we need on a daily basis (I am a teacher and love what I do).
Thank you for reminding me that my small discomforts are nothing compared to what others may have and that my normal is not everyone's normal.
Reminds me of something my friend said to me once: the problem is people don’t aim for enough money they aim for as much as possible
"In trying to insulate myself from precarity I can also make myself distant from the reality of suffering, and if I were more proximal to that suffering I would use more of my resources to try and alleviate it." An important truth beautifully expressed.
I love how you made an excellent 2-year anniversary video for the MCOE without even mentioning the MCOE.
I am SURE I’m not the first to say it, but…
It’s interesting to me that a person with such continually high levels of anxiety is such a voice of calm in my life.
Thank you John!
I'm grateful for the idea of paradox. Makes a lot of "contradiction" seem sort of funny and fun.
This is oddly excellent timing; I was just watching a documentary on war photography for school, and it brought me far closer to human suffering than I've been in a long time. I'm in a situation that I'd really like to not be in, but I still have security in many ways and it's good to remember that.
I’m saving this to play periodically to remind myself how complacent I’ve been with my life. I’m truly grateful for what I have.
It's amazing to hear someone I respect so much speak to the exact questions I've spent my entire life trying to figure out and put their opinion on it out their so eloquently and concisely. Thank you John.
Thank you for being willing to acknowledge and examine your stability and the effects it has on your life and your view of the world. You two are such great humans.
This is 100% my mood this week so thank you. I'm finally housed, in a loving marriage, own a reliable car, having some savings and there is always food in the fridge. Most of this was not true a few years ago.
Both of you have dropped some excellent truths the last few videos, and I have really enjoyed getting to think deeply about these things.
Thanks for making this John. As someone in my family who has not achieved what others have already achieved, I need more reminders that despite those achievements I am enough and it is enough to be exactly where I am. ❤️
Holy hell this video just came out ten seconds ago
When i saw the title, this was very much not what i was expecting but I am very pleasantly surprised. I have a new found appreciation for the word 'Enough' and its meaning. how this one word encompasses so much about anything and can serve as a reminder to us all about what we spend our lives chasing, enough of something, trying to be enough for someone to love etc.. Thank you for continuing to challenge and enlighten us!
That last line gave me chills and tears. Amazing, thank you
As someone who is always on the mental journey to enough, I enjoyed hearing your perspective. We're here because we're here because we're here because we're here and that is often (mentally) enough.
John: "...let me stop using 'we', and start using 'I'..."
Me: "Oh dear..."
**Waves of reality roll in like a tsunami**
Thank you for the reminder to appreciate the concept of having enough. I think I've been struggling with this all year, but when I really stop and think about all that I have whether it's material or the love I feel from my friends and family. I know I have enough and there is a comfort in knowing that, no matter what I will gain in monetary value it will not make me happier without the connections I make with others. I have enough and I am enough no matter how much my existential anxiety tries to tell me that I don't.
Thank you for always making me think and see things in a different light. You always change my day and my perspective.
I have always struggled with how truly undefinable the word “enough” is. Perhaps being aware of that fact is enough.
It is a clear word if it is used right, with a ready answer to the question, "enough for what?" Having enough to survive, having enough to be comfortable, these things are concrete. People with too much, who feel like they still don't have enough, haven't clarified "for what" for themselves.
Thank you for reminding me that there are reasons to be grateful in spite of my pain and mental health struggles. I’m always more thoughtful when I come away
As a sufferer of chronic pain, I often feel so frustrated with my own access to health care and rarely take a moment to remember that I’m an American phd student in Scotland who is benefiting from the slow but technically free NHS system and that if things get bad enough I could theoretically borrow money from my parents to return to the states and use the insurance that my father very graciously still pays for me. I’m safe. I’m provided for. Forgetting this benefits no one, least of all me. It should be enough. Especially when so many need so much more
I am so grateful for the vlogbrothers space.
"then enough is simply too much " is a really good sentence
Just when I was struggling to find things to be grateful for, this showed up exactly when I needed it. Thanks John.
John Green: "enough is too much"
Me: "waiting for that day when the safety net isn't needed"
Oh, for the luxury of having security in this society of material plenty.
I feel I do not have enough in a way. I have no savings. but I forget to acknowledge I have it pretty good. if I fail to pay rent, sure I might get kicked out but I have parents who will take care of me. I wouldn't die.
It could be a lot better. I was turned down for PIP even though I told them I can't leave the house which really upset me because for some people it's their only option. PIP gives money to people with mental and physical health problems in the UK.
basically, I feel like I have 0% "enough" but really it's like 95%. once I have some savings it will be enough and I'll try to remind myself of that.
Thank you for this message. I shed a single burning tear at the end.
This is the first vlogbrothers video Ive watched in about 5 years. John still never misses. How eloquently put
"enough" is not an amount, it's a conscious, mindful, prolonged feeling.
Living in a co-op aimed at low income students reminded me daily that I was basically rich, even though a grad student’s salary isn’t much.
This is the most profound vlogbrothers video in recent memory. I feel like it reflects and touches on things i have felt and tried to live by for a long time.
Thank you.
this gave me the same type of emotions that the “steve from blues clues” video gave me. i have not arrived at enough, yet. i need insurance, stability, and proper education. it’s very easy to feel like i will never have enough to get this anxiety to go away. but i need to hear these things. to keep me hopeful and humble while my life furthers and expands. thank you, john. you’ve been keepin me thoughtful since age 12.
I definitely needed this today. Love you John ❤️❤️
He's amazing!
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I really don't know how you guys make such great thought videos on a regular basis
Videos like this inspire me to stay thoughtful and critical of my own world view and my own position in this world we all call our home, and for that I'll always be thankful. Thank you, John and Hank.
I think this really hits at the core of the human struggle, where we have better clarity when we can remove our own stress from precarity because we are gaining control over something we lacked, which allows our brains to more easily function less reactively.
However, doing so creates advantageous circumstances that, until others have that as well, means we face new stressors that gradually distance us from others' hardships that we have the power to alleviate.
This is a struggle that ties back into when the first kings emerged, and wealth helped to make them able to think clearly, but also distanced them. _"Heavy is the head that wears the crown"_ because its normal is addressing stressors of others and not just itself - but it only does that so long as it recognized that its position is not "normal" compared to everyone else.
This is something that is often hard to see objectively, but is something that I think your videos and content always help to do, and bring to myself and others in ways you may not see.
Having "enough" and doing "enough" are all an imperfect measurement of what we perceive about the level of control over what we have and what we do with it to what ends. That will change over time, but I think it's a really helpful reflection to consider regularly when assessing motivations and struggles, and helping to remember that we're all human and no one has a perfect answer to their unique circumstances.
This got deep.
John always conveys the most wonderful messages in his videos. Thank you for always reminding me to have perspective, as a 25 year old who thinks he can change the world, but forgets to grow himself.
I grew up poor, so finally having "enough" is great. Then we started to save for a deposit on a mortgage and suddenly I didn't feel like we had enough anymore. We do, we are taking advantage of our privilege to try get be in a less precarious position in the long term. I also insulate myself from feeling like I have enough because my career isn't 100% secure. I keep moving from short term contract to another, and getting a permanent job in my sector, especially where I want to live is nearly impossible.
But I should not forget that I I am not actually poor anymore. I met a family at the weekend who didn't have food at home. That is closer to my childhood's reality that my current state and I need to remember that, even though where I live means I see lots of people who own yacht.
Ugh this vid is soooo good!!!! How you can talk to one person while also talking to everybody....a gift.
YOUR BOOKS HELP ME SURVIVE 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Samez
Thanks for reading them. -John
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@@okaymanssiii6296 Yeah buddy! You're now enough!!!
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I always have to remind myself that although I don’t have “enough” money and security to follow my dreams I still have a roof over my head and food in my cabinets unlike some
Oooff that last line hit hard. I think I'm going to have to sit down with that one so I fully soak it up and decide what I'm going to do about it.
"it is so easy to forget that we have enough" WOW😭😭😭😭