Good enough

“Aye, that’ll do” – the sweetest words I ever heard.

Sounds like faint praise, but it’s the wink in the eye as it was said that makes all the difference.

It’s been such a struggle; I felt sure it would end in failure.

But he said I had potential, and I trusted that.

To be honest, I thought I might do a bit better,

But we have to be realistic.

I was a late starter, and a bit slow on the uptake.

Many would have thought I wasn’t worth the effort,

But he saw something in me,

Said he could see something of himself in the way I looked into the far distance,

As though, maybe, there was a new path I hadn’t taken yet, but it might bring me somewhere good.

I nearly didn’t set out – got cold feet; thought I wouldn’t be good enough,

But in the end, he put it just right:

“Good enough is good enough”.