The Pain of Unused Potential

My 32nd birthday

 

I wonder if I was born a few years later, or if I was born in a different place, or in other circumstances, what would my life look like?

If my life were a movie, it would be called (The Pain of Unused Potential).

It’s no surprise that I feel this way.

All my hopes and dreams are unfit for this time and space. They are “slightly off-track.” As the climate looks pretty different and so incompatible with what I really want to achieve as a human, a student, and a professional, your efforts would eventually go unnoticed or underappreciated.

This doesn’t really help when I am being driven by my own sense of constant dissatisfaction with myself, accompanied by the sense of urgency life imposed upon me. It consumes me every single day.

The problem is that if I don’t follow my heart and fulfill my potential, I know, I will become someone I hate. And I will live miserably, knowing what I could become and not doing anything about it.

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