Potential
When I look at you I see so much potential. If I was to ask you what you seed in my hand would you say an apple seed? Most people will, but it’s the rare person who can see what is to be instead of what it for someone once said that when you look at an apple seed, you shouldn’t see a mere seed, but you should see a beautiful blossoming apple tree with delicious red apples. Someone also said that there is a tragedy when the apple tree dies in the seed. Never fulfilling its potential—never becoming what it was intended to become. An apple seed is meant to be an apple tree. Why shouldn’t it be an apple tree? You are meant to fulfill every purpose that is inside you. For it was also said that our future isn’t in front of us, its inside.
Let me define the word potential for you. Potential: the inherent capacity for coming into being, possible but not yet in existence, Assumed ability to deliver relevant attribute under favorable circumstances.
To deliver relevant attributes under favorable circumstances…..
In order to fulfill your true potential, you must have favorable circumstances for it’s not the seed that has the problem when it doesn’t produce, but it’s the environment. If the soil isn’t right, if there isn’t enough water or sun to provide the proper nutrients, the tree will never be. It simply dies as a seed.
Well, what happens when you don’t have favorable circumstances—a proper environment? Are you destined to die without fulfilling your true purpose simply because your family was poor and couldn’t pay for the necessary tools needed for school? Do you simply give up because instead of teaching and modeling good character at home, your parents struggled with various addictions to controlling substances? Do you simply abort your future because you were not the favorite and had to scheme and fight to accomplish everything that you’ve accomplished?
Not so, because you aren’t an apple seed. You are a person that has been placed here for a purpose and there have been many examples of overcoming barriers. You have no excuse. Many people have struggled, fought, and cried for you to be here. Too much young people today have …. The … of those who have gone before them. They mishandle their opportunities by being disrespectful to their teachers, disregarding the rules that are set before them and having no regard for their education. Too much are they complacent and lazy when it comes to their future. To them, someone owes them something. The “man” did this to me is often an excuse. They don’t realize that they can overcome the oppression depression and be the best that society has to offer. There have been many trailblazers and must keep sacred that hard work that they have done to make this journey easier for you. Yeah, life can be hard, but some things you don’t have to go through because there have been way too many people who have gone through them already. Why repeat the same mistakes? Haven’t you seen the results of that mistake? Why repeat that moment in history? It’s because you lose focus on your purpose and somehow fail to realize that you can meet your potential and become what it was meant for you to become. It’s a tragedy to not meet your potential.
Trailblazer: someone who marks a trail by leaving blazes on trees, One that blazes a trail to guide others; a pathfinder; An innovative leader in a field; a pioneer.
I can imagine a person at the entrance to a deep dark forest and their purpose, their objective is to get through to the other side. He starts out trudging along over weeds and vines and around all types of trees. He is traveling through the unknown for he knows not what type of animals or poisonous plant are there in the forest, but he keeps going because he must fulfill his purpose. He keeps that in front of him. This is the motivation to keep going through the darkness, through the loneliness, through the seemingly endless battle with all that is there. The person realizes that it would be a little bit easier for the people behind him if he clears the path. As he goes along he tears through the vines and tramples down the weeds. He makes a path for the people behind him to follow. He can look back and see the way is clearer. He looks forward and sees the work ahead, but he dredges along until he finally makes it to the other side. He can see behind him the path that has been made.
Now, it makes absolutely no sense for the next person to ...
to be continued
Let me define the word potential for you. Potential: the inherent capacity for coming into being, possible but not yet in existence, Assumed ability to deliver relevant attribute under favorable circumstances.
To deliver relevant attributes under favorable circumstances…..
In order to fulfill your true potential, you must have favorable circumstances for it’s not the seed that has the problem when it doesn’t produce, but it’s the environment. If the soil isn’t right, if there isn’t enough water or sun to provide the proper nutrients, the tree will never be. It simply dies as a seed.
Well, what happens when you don’t have favorable circumstances—a proper environment? Are you destined to die without fulfilling your true purpose simply because your family was poor and couldn’t pay for the necessary tools needed for school? Do you simply give up because instead of teaching and modeling good character at home, your parents struggled with various addictions to controlling substances? Do you simply abort your future because you were not the favorite and had to scheme and fight to accomplish everything that you’ve accomplished?
Not so, because you aren’t an apple seed. You are a person that has been placed here for a purpose and there have been many examples of overcoming barriers. You have no excuse. Many people have struggled, fought, and cried for you to be here. Too much young people today have …. The … of those who have gone before them. They mishandle their opportunities by being disrespectful to their teachers, disregarding the rules that are set before them and having no regard for their education. Too much are they complacent and lazy when it comes to their future. To them, someone owes them something. The “man” did this to me is often an excuse. They don’t realize that they can overcome the oppression depression and be the best that society has to offer. There have been many trailblazers and must keep sacred that hard work that they have done to make this journey easier for you. Yeah, life can be hard, but some things you don’t have to go through because there have been way too many people who have gone through them already. Why repeat the same mistakes? Haven’t you seen the results of that mistake? Why repeat that moment in history? It’s because you lose focus on your purpose and somehow fail to realize that you can meet your potential and become what it was meant for you to become. It’s a tragedy to not meet your potential.
Trailblazer: someone who marks a trail by leaving blazes on trees, One that blazes a trail to guide others; a pathfinder; An innovative leader in a field; a pioneer.
I can imagine a person at the entrance to a deep dark forest and their purpose, their objective is to get through to the other side. He starts out trudging along over weeds and vines and around all types of trees. He is traveling through the unknown for he knows not what type of animals or poisonous plant are there in the forest, but he keeps going because he must fulfill his purpose. He keeps that in front of him. This is the motivation to keep going through the darkness, through the loneliness, through the seemingly endless battle with all that is there. The person realizes that it would be a little bit easier for the people behind him if he clears the path. As he goes along he tears through the vines and tramples down the weeds. He makes a path for the people behind him to follow. He can look back and see the way is clearer. He looks forward and sees the work ahead, but he dredges along until he finally makes it to the other side. He can see behind him the path that has been made.
Now, it makes absolutely no sense for the next person to ...
to be continued
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