Do you feel like you’ve wasted potential?

[cryptoinvestor]

Yes, ADHD has made it hard for me to realise my full potential

 

[Imagined_Euphoria]

Not really. All aspects of me that could grown into adult potential have been destroyed by my environments, so, so many things that got ruined for me. I know it sounds arrogant, but I really barely did anything wrong, without me doing anything at all I was forced into situations that are just bad luck again and again. And thats why I'm who I am today and can't even work. My brains just destroyed. Much of it is on a cultural level too, like family and friends just trying to force their thoughts onto me and controlling me.

 

[Kali_Yuga13]

The "potential" thing is double edged. Living up to what other's envision for you can be a tremendous burden. Potential as in living a fulfilling life on one's own terms (to the extent that's possible) is another story. My potential was ruined by parental sabotage and my subsequent failure to permanently go no contact. It would have been hard but worth it. I guess some would say I still have potential but now I have the memories of a life that was fundamentally wrong for me.

 

[divinemistress36]

Brain damage ruined any potiental I had

 

[nembutal]

i feel bad for anyone who decided to live for other people. heard a number of stories about college kids who obviously weren't happy with trying to meet all of their parents' expectations and ending up in a dismal position. when i let go of this notion that i was born solely for the purposes of pleasing my parents some of my SI decreased.

 

[ur8ndom]

Hell yes, I feel like I wasted almost all of my potential. When I was in my identity crisis last year and the year before (I had realized that I was a bad person my whole life, lost my love, my best friend and my dreams because of my selfishness) I realized how much potential I have that I never used. I was undisciplined and only took my whole life. I was suffering moral injury and thought I can never get out of this dark place I was in. You should think that if you make it out, you'd work on your self-discipline and use your potential then but instead I kept sabotaging myself. I was telling myself "you're a bad person, you don't deserve success, happiness or redemption" and fell back into self destructive habits until I felt unable to move forwards. That's why I'm here.

 

[Hotsackage]

Yes. I've wasted my potential by becoming a NEET after graduating college. I don't care about the fact that I'm a "disappointment" to everyone around me though. Why should I be obligated to achieve anything? I never asked to be born, so why is there this inherent expectation to be successful or "do something"?

Ya everyone has these expectations of me, I didn't ask for this shit, now leave me alone lol

 

[rotten]

I think I wasted some potential but my family seems to think I fucked up my whole life. Everyone believed I would be the first in my family to graduate college. Now I'm the loser of the family because I quit school and hide in my room. Mind you, there are people in my family who are abusive, are rapists, and do shit like steal from churches. I wouldn't be this way if it wasn't for them. Gotta love hypocrisy.