Thank you for this book recommendation, FormerDoormat.
the focus on potential carries our imagination to how things might be or could be and away from how they are now.
So true and yet we are usually raised this way. Look at all the teachers who focus on the potential of young students as a way to predicting a positive future outcome. Psychological and apptitudinal testing is all about potential. We are taught to look beyond what is. I guess, however, there comes a time in our life when we have to stop and see the adult for who he/she is as a future predictor of what will be.
I am glad you posted your thoughts about this book today. While out doing errands earlier I had this vision of XABF (and I have NO idea where it came from!) as he WAS waaaaaaaaay back when. I allowed myself a few seconds of nostalgia until I brought myself up to the last time I saw him for the reality check. Yeah...the writing was all over the wall waaaaaaaaaaaay back when. I chose not to see it because I was blinded by who he could be and the person I thought he was.
ARL