Potential. The word creates thought us cliched phrases such as “he had so much potential.” and “I see some potential there.”
These phrases conjur a sense of failure, one of falling short of the ever elusive perfection that fulfilled potential entails. This is sad to me, because the word itself is a positive one, but these phrases are negative.
Today has been a day of potential for me. Little M had a basketball game, I had therapy, then went to knitting group, then had a pretty awkward but necessary thing with my parents, and am now on the way to a birthday party for little M’s friend. Each activity has it’s own potential, and so far they’ve all been positive.
It fills me with motivation to work toward potential in other areas of my life!
