Said the lover to the beloved, who was consumed by fear of stagnating, of not fulfilling her potential, of wasting her precious time in life:
Look around you!
The apple could not have been picked sooner. The cocoon could not have opened earlier. But neither is sitting still, doing nothing. Both need time to grow.
You are the apple of my eye
and the butterfly of my heart.
I cannot wait until you feel for yourself the wings you are going to grow,
and see how beautiful you are.
~
At times, we may come to feel trapped within the paths we once chose, or that were chosen for us. We may come to feel that we are idly allowing the mystery, beauty and potential life offers, to pass us by.
This piece takes some words of wisdom that we have all been fortunate to receive at some point in our lives, and adapts them into a brief story.
saara 
Beautiful Saara. Thanks for sharing your struggle and your light. Remember that potential is not a unitary concept, it is fluid and can be as narrow or as broad as you want it to be. It sometimes feels that the path your own is narrow and leading to one destination but maybe think about how wide the path can be and how you can swerve, skip, run, jump, and laugh all along your way.
Love it! You maybe like this it’s called “the paradox of potential”:) http://wp.me/p4WMm5-2Q
Thanks Gabriel! Loved your post!