Potential, the Future, Life, and the Art of Letting Go

I have been told during my life that I have a lot of potential.

In fact, most recently, a YouTuber told me I had "so much freaking potential."  I felt honored, and approved the comment even though it had landed in my spam box.

But what does it really mean to have potential?

How does it really impact your life to have potential?

For some reason, it reminds me of the black spot from Treasure Island, a summons to the grave.

Potential tries to define what MAY develop in the FUTURE.

However, I am trying to be concerned with what IS developing in the PRESENT.

When does potential become reality?

What does it take to make potential the actual reality?

How can we go beyond what is potentially identified and deliver something beyond what we thought possible?

What does the FUTURE hold? Who can possibly know? NO ONE.

I want to be able to completely think about the present, about what is going on right now, at this second, in this moment, and have it be the best it can possibly be.

I need to be attentive.

I need to be vigilant.

I need to be aware.

I need to focus.

I need to do so many things, but at the same time, I have to do nothing but live life, and let it be lived.

I need to be intense and relaxed at the same time. I have to do so many things.

What do I really have to do though? I have to merely be.

I have to merely allow myself to be and

enjoy and

share and

create.

So many things.

There isn't just one thing.

But there is just one thing.

LIFE.

I am enjoying life right now. I am letting the writing happen. I am enjoying the process of writing and relishing the idea of sharing it with the world. But that is the future.

I am a part of the present and the future at the same time.

Am I capable of letting go of the future, what may or may not be in store for me, and just live my life? Am I going to live in the present at this time right now, right here, as I work and live and breathe?

There is only one way for me to be myself completely, and that is to let it all hang out.

So if the potential and the future are all rolled into one thing, am I willing to give up that thing? Am I willing to give up what might be and live into what IS right now, at this very moment?

Am I willing to let my potential go, and just do the best that I can in all areas of my life?

Am I willing to reduce potential and the future to mere ideas and realize that right now, RIGHT NOW, is all I have to make anything different, whether past, present, or future.

RIGHT NOW, this MOMENT, this BREATH, THIS SECOND, RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW

IS

the only time that I can

change

be myself

live fully

be truly alive

be one with the universe

breathe completely and fully

learn something new

remember something old

embrace the present

diminish the past

forget the future

and live

my

fucking

life

like

I

deserve

to.


Now is all we have...

Don't waste it...

Do not be afraid.

We are all here.

But we can only do it now.

And if you get lost, get fucking found again.

It's time.

The time is now.

Let's do this thing.

Embrace the present, forget potential, hope for the future, let go, and live into the now.

I am alive.

Can you feel it?

I can.

I can feel you too.

Beat your heart out.

Go make something wonderful.

And share it.

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