How much is enough?

Question

In a conversation not too long ago discussing what someone had been attempting in so many ways and so many times (and without success), the concept came up that "it wasn't meant to be."

What is your philosophy on what was meant to be?

Answer 1

Enough is a mere matter of opinion. But, when an opinion is shared by numerous others, it becomes fact. Enough is enough when more than one person says it is. My philosophy on 'what was meant to be', I'll go ahead an assume it's relative to a relationship. If someone does not wish to overwhelm, they must first treat each and every last individual as an average. Until they can learn more about the other, and adapt to their likes and dislikes, turn ons and turn offs. Enough isn't much, if you don't pay attention to what they're are hearing, rather than what you are saying.

Answer 2

Just because one person thinks and feels one way about something or someone doesn't mean that what they desire will come to be.

Two people can say, hey, Lets fall in love!! But you can't make it so if it's not there. Perhaps you can learn to love that person over the years, but it's not the same as two eyes meeting across a crowded room and both your hearts stopping and your stomachs fluttering all over the place kind of love.

Sometimes life gets in the way too of your trying to achieve something over the years...it just never seems to get done, and eventually you abandon it...it wasn't meant to be. Sometimes your priorities change and you no longer want what you thought you did years ago, or what you've been working and striving for. So you do an exit stage left and go another direction.

I always use the famous words of John Lennon: Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Answer 3

Did you ever read about Abraham Lincoln and how many times he failed at different things he tried to do?
Enough is whatever you want it to be.
If you strive for something for so long and it just doesn't happen, but you really want it, you keep at it until you just can't do it anymore, that is called drive.
Some people give up faster than others.
There are some things that are not meant to be and you just have to figure out when that point arrives.
I think it is called a gut feeling.

Answer 4

It is possible that enoughness is relative to the individual. This may be a particular rather than a universal category. What is enough for one invidual may not be enough for another. But we all should learn the quality of being content with less materially. We will then be much happier people.

Answer 5

so many things we wouldn't have had if some people had just give up you don't give up you just try other ways, what is success, we think in imediate terms now fast food, fast cars, fast whatever and get in and get out and that is not always the way it works you must pace yourself one of the hardest things to learn to do, but never give up if you want something

Answer 6

we were meant to be.

we were meant to be born, grow up, make decisions good and bad, and learn from both, in a never ending cycle until the end.

Answer 7

To people, "enough" won't have the same quantity of mass or measure. It has to come with satisfaction, contentment, fulfillment. If any of these can't be felt, nothing is enough.
Of greed: "Too much is not enough"...
Of humility: "This is more than enough"
Of doubt: "This could be enough"

Answer 8

I don't generally believe in the term " meant to be". Sometimes people just don't know when to stop.

Answer 9

If you ask Oscar Wilde, he would say: 'Too much is never enough.'