Posted by pegasus on April 10, 2004, at 1:46:33
In reply to is it in me?, posted by karen_kay on April 9, 2004, at 20:14:03
Karen, I agree with everyone else that you are already great.
When I was younger, I did have that feeling that I would do something great. Or, that I had the potential to. (At other times, I thought I was hopelessly pathetic, but that's not the point here.) Over the past couple of years, I've begun to see myself as a more medium person, with some really great qualities, and some unfortunate qualities. I've found that middle view to be a lot more freeing than the times that I saw all of my amazing potential. I'm not explaining this well. I mean that I've only started living up to my amazing potential when I started letting go of the pressure to be something great. Does that make sense? I had to be able to see myself as just a regular person, and see that that was OK, before I was free enough to look around and make the right decisions.
Maybe that's where your guy is coming from. I think a lot of folks see that they have potential, and then for whatever reason they start living in a way that isn't addressing that potential. So, then they comfort themselves by saying, well, that's how everyone is so it's ok. I needed to get to there before I started realizing that another way to comfort myself in that place was to actually reach out and start using that potential.
it's late, maybe this is incoherent
pegasus
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