Potential//

There's a quote that goes "I've got a bad habit of becoming infatuated with someone's potential, I become so intrigued by what they initially show me.. that I begin to imagine and visualize the greatness that could come from them. Never once stopping to think that sometimes, people don't live up to their potential".

\The other day I was talking to someone and I mentioned how this happens to me a lot and she also said she could relate as well so I wanted to write more about this.

Potential defined as an adjective is: having or showing the capacity to become or develop into something in the future.
And as a noun it is: latent qualities or abilities that may be developed and lead to future success or usefulness.
  
It's crazy how when we meet someone and as they begin to show us who they are, we can easily become infatuated with what we are shown but that doesn't necessarily mean that is who they are. You know when you have to go to an interview, depending on the location, you dress accordingly.. People do the same when they decide what to show us. We find out things and we automatically fantasize how everything will play out. We begin to plan ahead after only knowing the parts of us that they choose to show us, and based on that, unrealistically, they seem to be perfect.. 

You want so bad for that person to be who you visualize them to be but sometimes it just wont happen. It may happen and you might be one of the lucky one's.. but it might not.. We try rush ahead and create this person in our head who doesn't really exist in real life.. I mean, yeah they exist in some aspect but they don't always live up to the potential we have set for them.

And yes it sucks, it sucks when you see potential in someone and they don't live up to it. But that has nothing to do with YOU. You can't make someone reach their full potential. And your expected potential of them may not necessarily be the same as there's. As humans, there is only so much we can do to aide someone's growth. We can't make them into the person we want them to, it either happens or it doesn't.