WHEN THE ORDINARY SEEMS TO BE ENOUGH

jerry KWATCHEY
@kwatcheyjerry128608
15 days ago

#poetry
WHEN THE ORDINARY SEEMS TO BE ENOUGH

When your goals, ambitions, and dreams are derailed,
the mind begins to substitute.

You start assigning weight
to things that were never meant
to carry significance.

The ordinary grows loud.
The mundane demands attention.
Small comforts begin to feel like milestones.

Not because they matter
but because something else is missing.

When direction is lost,
anything that moves feels meaningful.
When vision fades,
noise starts to sound like progress.

Routine disguises itself as fulfillment.
Validation imitates value.
Busyness wears the costume of purpose.

It isn’t that these things are wrong
they are simply overpromoted,
asked to fill a void
they were never designed to occupy.

Derailment rarely announces itself as collapse.
More often, it arrives quietly
as misplaced attention,
as a life spent perfecting the ordinary
while abandoning the extraordinary.

And until the dream is reclaimed,
the familiar will keep whispering,
This is enough.

A Reflection from the SIMU Collection.

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