Unfortunately, human beings seem to invest a great deal in the "being good enough" mentality. We often learn it in our own homes, then we go to school and are literally taught that if we don't make the grade or don't do something a certain way, we are simply "not good enough". Truth is we judge EVERYTHING that way so it's not surprising that so many struggle with some kind of mental illness at some point in their lives.

It isn't "good enough" that you work and buy yourself a car unless you can buy yourself THE car that says, "you are good enough". It isn't good enough that you work and make enough to buy a home unless you can buy the kind of home that is THE kind of home that says, "you are good enough". It isn't good enough that you find a nice outfit that you look really good in unless it's THE designer outfit that states "you are good enough".

If you raise a child that has a learning disability, you find out really fast how quickly that child can suddenly be judged as "not good enough". I went to a Catholic private all girls school and because I was not catholic "I was not good enough". Truth is, if one doesn't believe and go along with XYZ, they tend to be immediately considered "not good enough".

Well, unfortunately, human beings live and breath by "am I good enough". This is VERY marketable too. If you sit and think about it, when it comes to human beings EVERYTHING is "rated" and "criticized".

So, in all this "good enough" dysfunction, what you have to ask yourself is "what is good enough for YOU". Raising a child who struggles with a learning disability, the one thing I wanted her to learn is to appreciate what she "could" achieve. Society dishes out a lot of "good enough" sentiment and it's so easy to fall into the trap of somehow believing you are just not "good enough".