Hello Everyone!
Have people ever told you that they thought you had potential?
When I was growing up, I got tired of hearing people tell me that I had so much potential to be and do things that I
was not particularly interested in and definitely not passionate about.
They told me I had the potential to be a lawyer, an entrepreneur, a banker and a whole lot of other things.
What was the point of fulfilling passionless potential that was clearly not an authentic form of self-expression for
me?
I found it hard to believe that the point of my life was to impress, please and satisfy others, while doing as many
good things as possible and feeling guilty about what I could have done that I did not do.
I also found it hard to believe that the point of my life was to survive, cope and make it, while indulging my
ego and attempting to validate myself.
I saw the hopelessness of seeking to live inside of others' views of my "potential," but what potential did I have that
would be an authentic expression of the person I was born to be?
The theme of our October/November E-Zine is "What Is The Potential You Were Born To Fulfill?"
The poem for October/November is "Potential."