Never enough

I had to press pause and stop to contemplate when this TEDx talk introduced the idea that we live in a culture that tells us "there is never enough." Things are "never good enough, never safe enough, never certain enough, never perfect enough, never extraordinary enough." The presenter in this talk, Brene Brown, lingers on that last idea of the extraordinary. She says that you can't have the good emotions all of the time, you have to have the bad too. We are on a quest for extraordinary when the moments that in fact give us the most joy are ordinary moments. She says, "honor the ordinary."

There are many ways this "never enough" concept can be used. As consumers we feel as though we never have consumed enough. I have never thought about this in the context of emotions though.