And since I could pay my bills, my rent and my student loans, it felt like I had enough.
And then when I had enough, I decided that it would be great to show them because people don't expect me to do something like this.
"By then, I had enough faith in Mike to do it, " says Wilson, now 68.
"Being so early, I don't feel like I've had enough mound time for it to just click, and not really think about it, " Strasburg said.
When I stepped into it, it had been shut down for three years, and truthfully, I wasn't bright enough to understand why everybody had walked away.
So I turned in that direction, my footsteps loud enough on the gravel to scare away whatever it was I had seen, for I supposed it was some animal.
They had to respect it, and I threw enough fastballs in there for strikes to keep them off balance.
And I had to do it in such a way that there was enough of a container so it didn't break apart, but there was enough room, actually, for these emotional issues to come to the surface.
It took about a year in the business before I had enough knowledge to begin to ask the right questions.
But strangely enough, it was the most difficult debate in parliament I ever had to take.
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While there's nothing wrong with that, convincing my friends I had suddenly found myself a wildly attractive girlfriend was going to be hard enough as it was - without the added issue around her communicating solely in Portuguese.
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So I gave it all, and I had that last 400 meters hoping that was enough.
The storyline in the book has been more than good enough for millions of readers over the years - I only wish it had so proved for Peter Jackson.
Nothing in me made me feel I had to do it so I came to the conclusion that I don't want it enough.
I've been lucky enough to have had a supportive husband who has allowed me to live my life as I wanted to live it.
I've been lucky enough to have had a similar view of the United Kingdom as the Olympic flame did as it traveled my country, because in 2009, I ran 43 marathons -- 1166 miles -- around the British Isles, and I saw first hand, how positive and supportive the real British people can be.
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