A few days ago, at the midpoint of a long hike with a friend, I suggested we meditate on the concept of “enough”—the idea of both “enough is enough” but also “how much is enough?” I have written on the notion of enough as it relates to both of these considerations, and I understand that these quantifications are fluid, evolving, and necessitate a repetitive as well as constant check-in. What felt okay or enough yesterday might not tomorrow. We must also evaluate the filters through which we are answering these questions. I now see the pattern of life not like a circle but a corkscrew: we keep coming back to the same challenges and opportunities—hopefully with more wisdom and, thus, elevated from where we were before.
Andy Warhol made a series of Rorschach paintings that take the standard psychological test image and play off the notion that so much of everything is based on how we choose to see it. That choice is informed by what we know, what we’ve experienced, and what we’ve seen. But each morning is a new day, and with that, we are also new people, seeing things and checking in on the way we think in new ways.
