I am too small to make a difference. 

We are prepared in the event that any disaster comes our way.  We’ll be ready for any inevitability, even if it doesn’t seem to involve us, because we want to help. And we’re so good at helping others, being the friend to those in crisis, and anticipating the needs of others, that we are seen as the go-to people who have the answers for almost everything.

Yet, because others see us as the one to lean on, we don’t usually have anyone we can turn to for help ourselves. And likely, we won’t anyway, because we believe we can’t be vulnerable: that the responsibilities we carry are too important so we cannot show weakness.

I Am Not Good Enough in this case translates into, I cannot handle any more emotions than what I already know. We are far more sensitive than we’ve given ourselves credit for, however in denying our emotional range and suppressing our sensitivities, we’ve shut down our most important gifts, which is the compassion and empathy that truly allows us to be a gift to others. But that we cannot be fully capable of being in compassion if we cannot show it to ourselves first.