You are afraid to fail because you’re not sure if you could take the fall. Essentially you’re afraid of your own fragility, so you aim low and meet it.

Potential is something unseen that only you can see in your mind until it’s made into reality. With that image in mind, you would like others to see you based on your potential, without realizing that only you can see/feel/make manifest your own highest potential.

You lose hope when you're treated less than your potential, even though weakness is what you project. You’re laden with insecurity, doubt, lack of trust in yourself and wonder why others don’t treat you as the superstar you know you could be, if only you could move forward in your life beyond the valley of mediocrity.

Intellectually you know the bigger the risk, the bigger the reward. What do you do when the thought of risk scares you, as it should, but it ends up stopping you in your tracks? You can have dreams and hopes from here to Timbuktu, but without consistent action, they will remain so.

This time has allowed you to look at yourself in ways you may have never had the time to in the past. As members of our society dismantled the statues and relics of systemic oppression, it made you look within yourself and inspired you to uproot the emotional/spiritual/intellectual foundations of mediocrity you have built your house (persona) over the years.

This is a call to excellence, from you to yourself. You still lay awake with dreams left unrealized, words left unsaid and blank canvases left unpainted. This is a call to action.

It is human nature to compare one’s victory and suffering to that of another, but you don’t really know what that person that seems to have it all figured out has/had to sacrifice to get to where they are today. Your hurt does not excuse your mediocrity, your unwillingness to bare your soul and make your potential manifest.

I hope you answer this call and I look forward to seeing the greatness I know lies within you.

Ai-Creo