You will waste your potential.

You will waste your potential and you won’t even realize it — until it’s too late

 

Do you know why you will waste your potential?

Because your potential is INFINITE.

Alas your time is finite.

 

You can’t have it all

And chances are you can’t even have a lot

You know you could do this and that, and you could have this and that — but you just can’t have it all at once

It’s possible — but it’s not that likely

You can strive to have it all — but you shouldn’t expect it

 

Thus you will waste your potential

You will regret it or you will deny your regret or you will deny your wasted potential

Maybe you won’t even be aware of what you lost

But you will waste your potential

Now what?

 

If you are going to waste your potential anyway — might as well decide what potential of yours you ARE going to REALIZE.

Might as well consider how you can get the MOST out of this potential of yours — since you can’t get all of it

And then might as well ask yourself:

NOW THAT I (WILL HAVE) WASTED MY POTENTIAL — HOW DO I WANT TO LIVE?

 

How do you want to live?

What potential of yours do you really want to realize?

How can I realize MORE of my potential (but not all)?

 

Those are questions

Questions imply answers imply CHOICES

 

You must choose

The story of yourself “fulfilled and complete”, one day, somehow somewhere — that story is a LIE

Now that you know that it’s a lie — what do you do? What different choices do you make?

How are you COMPLETE — even if you FAIL?

How have you ENJOYED this brief existence — even if you only got so little?

 

THOSE are the questions

The REAL questions

And THOSE are the choices

You will have wasted your potential — but MAYBE you will not have wasted your life

I know you didn’t mean to

No one means to waste their lives

And then they do

 

So start today

Really you can only ever start today

And if you can only not waste today — then you have succeeded

Your life is your days

Don’t waste your days

What can you work on that is worthwhile — even if you fail?

What should you work on — and what should you thus give up on?

What can you do that should make you smile — even if it’s small?

What MORE can you do?