You are enough for every stage of your journey.

Remember that you are enough.

We often hear the metaphor that we are puzzles, incomplete until we find the missing piece, usually imagined as another person, a relationship, or an external validation.

While romantic, this idea subtly implies that we are inherently lacking and need someone or something else to complete us.

What if the truth is the opposite? What if we are already enough, whole and valuable as we are, with or without another?

To view oneself as a puzzle with missing pieces is to internalise the idea of deficiency. This belief can lead to endless searching and an anxiety-driven pursuit of fulfilment from external sources, relationships, achievements, or societal approval.

True fulfilment comes not from being completed by another but from recognising one’s inherent completeness.

The philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre spoke of radical freedom, the idea that we define ourselves through our choices and actions.

If we constantly seek someone to complete us, we risk surrendering our autonomy and forgetting that our wholeness is not contingent on external factors.

Psychologically, being “enough” aligns with self-acceptance and self-compassion.