In the past I invested a lot of time into people who had potential to be “so great”. I assumed they just didn’t know how great they really were, and I wanted to be the person who believed in them.
“Potential to be so great” meant to me that they were very smart, or talented or had traits that I admired and didn’t see in myself. I would invest my time and energy into supporting these people so that they could become “so great”, and become very frustrated when they gave up.
I realized it wasn’t helpful and I’ve let go of my attachment to potential in others. I’m much more interested in who you are, and what’s in your heart.
And then I realized, it’s way more fun to play in the realm of possibility, than it is to stumble around in the land of unrealized potential.
We all have a whole bunch of unrealized potential we haven’t tapped in to yet, and that is perfectly ok… how could we possibly do it all?