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| Photo by Jennifer E. Miller 2018 |
Better Isn’t
Good Enough
By,
Jennifer E. Miller
Be better, they
say. Since when is good enough not good enough?
Be a better spouse.
Make the dinners, perfectly every time. Clean up inside and out so it looks better,
so people you don’t care to see feel welcomed and impressed.
Be a better parent.
Working or stay home, it doesn’t matter. You can still do better than what
you’re doing. There’s always another parent who works harder and accomplishes more than you.
Find a better
job with better pay and better benefits. Better co-workers, better hours, and
better bonuses. So you can buy a better car, to better you in debt, all to
better your image.
Take better
vacations, whatever that means, to better places, to better your memories or
the envy of others.
Give your kids
a better life than you had. Experience more, study more, extracurricular
more. Can’t miss out because, anymore, ordinary isn’t good enough.
Since when is
good enough not good enough?
Sometimes the
dinners burn, dishes pile up, and the clutter hangs around.
Fix your house
the way you like and leave it or, if you want, change it.
Work what works
for you. It pays the bills and any better is just a bonus.
A car doesn’t
reflect on you; it just gets you places like to that vacation closer to home. Maybe
it’s not a better place to those who always look to better their life by comparison,
but we’re not supposed to care what they think.
Kids don’t know
your childhood. How you were encouraged to do better, be better, live better.
Or understand that good enough wasn’t good enough.
And even if you
do better, be better, live better, there’s always going to be someone out there
better than you. It’s a constant chase of what can’t be caught.
What you do is good
enough. And that’s enough.
Copyright 2019 Jennifer E. Miller
