Living up to your potential?

"She has so much potential" is what my mother and I would constantly hear from my teachers growing up. One would bring me outside of the classroom nearly everyday to have a talk, making sure to push me to my limits. If not pushed, I'd literally daydream the day away. I still have a hard time keeping my head out of the clouds so to speak. Pisces Lilith maybe?

Anyway, I hope how I started is not how I'll end as a person who's potential was never reached. It sucks to feel like you have a lot to offer, and sucks even more for people to see it in you and you can't see it in yourself. That honestly bothers me more, people thinking I'm capable of much more. I feel that extreme approaching, where as I won't be happy until I reach what I'm capable of, whatever it is that may be.

I'm wondering how you all are coming along on your journey? Have you given all that you have to offer? Or do you feel similar to the way I do, like your selling yourself short?

btw I really hope 2012 will be a better year. I plan to master how I plan this year lol. My plans never go well, but they go much better than not having a plan at all that's for sure.

Posted by Chance11
i think you just have to have patience. things happen later for caps..we age backwards so things start out tough and then get easier. i spent a good amount of time wandering around, wondering what i was doing, wondering why i wasn't getting the breaks and the easy street some seemed to have. no way i would trade their pitfalls and unresolved issues that come back to find them for my slow, sure footed goat ascent 🙂

I definitely feel like I'm wandering. I'm not an easy route type of person, in that I don't want to have any regrets looking back at what I've done to others, or myself, to get where I'm trying to go, so I agree with you there. My biggest problem is just trying to figure out what I want. I saw in your other post where you said maybe its a Cap thing to trip over the simple stuff, and that seems like the most simple thing to me. Knowing your equipped to take your passion wherever it is you want it to go, yet not knowing what your passionate about lol. I've been patient, and I feel I'm getting closer to "something" so that's a good thing.

Sounds like unreachable goals were put in place .... epic failure


A person is suppose to layer their goals, stepping up ... not set the plan on the highest rail without any patterned accomplishments to reach that top.


That was very mean and unreasonable for your educators to do to you ... they basically set you up to fail by placing tasks on your shoulders too high for you to reach.

Sounds like you still do it to yourself ....


"It sucks to feel like you have a lot to offer, and sucks even more for people to see it in you and you can't see it in yourself. That honestly bothers me more, people thinking I'm capable of much more. I feel that extreme approaching, where as I won't be happy until I reach what I'm capable of"



You aren't capable of anything, if alls that is set is the extreme ...... if you can't see the end, then you'll never find it

@P-Angel, I agree on layering goals and stepping up. Really, that has been one of my biggest problems. I can see the end, but once I get going and realize that so much work has to be put in to getting there I'm quickly derailed and realize that its not really a passion, or something that I really want midway. I just let it all dissolve and move on to the next thing, which ends with the same end result. Libra Mars maybe? I'd say that family set me up to fail more than educators. I had an aunt that bragged on me to the point where it created tension, that still lingers, between my cousins and I. Everything I did in her eyes was so perfect. I hated it but didn't know how to tell her to stop and she still does it. My Cap friend went through the same thing, and part of him wants to achieve more because of the expectations his family had/have of him. When he was younger extended family would come down and be impressed by his thoughts/ideas and he's still wanting to impress them. Whatever he's doing isn't good enough because he's not well known and rich.

@BlazingGoat, I relate to all of your posts so much. If I'm not mistaken, my birthday is one day after yours so maybe that helps lol. It seems you live a wonderful life and you seem to take great care of your family. That's so far from a disappointment. I've noticed that when people are not happy they won't let you rest. The times where I've been content, people bothered me. I just can't seem to rest like others in my family, so its definitely a combination of expectations and me wanting more.