365QOD-Day150

"A member of the 'formally promising club'"- a line from You will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger movie


Unfortunately, life does not reward potential. 

Several years ago I had a new student come up to me and tell me that he had returned to school because of me.  I scratched my head and expressed a puzzled look.  I asked, "how can that be, I just started being your teacher?"  He told me a short story.

A few years before that day he had walked in to a class that I was teaching.  It was the first day of the class and he happen to be in the wrong room.  Enjoying himself he stayed.  He did not feel that school was the right choice for him and shortly afterwards quit the university.

However, something kept bugging him. It was something I said,  "We may judge ourselves by what we are capable of BUT others judge us by what we have already done."

His younger brother graduated and got a good job.  He kept thinking about that statement.  He thought of himself as Mr. Potential.  He thought that he can do anything.  That he can be anything.  In his mind he even believed that.

However, people were judging him based on what he had done.  So he came back to school and finished his degree.

Today's question is:
"Are you full of potential?"