Henry and a spritzer

Very often we allow our goals or ambitions to become substitutes for action.We allow Thinking to take the place of conversing. The knowledge of one's potential is enough to sate one's desire for greatness or achievement." I could'a  been at the top baby, but i jus' didnt want to be one of those people, ya know? Who dont spend any time enjoying life; music and writing arn't about forcing something to come, it has just gotta happen, like a wet dream, ya know? "

pardon that terrible example. Im just stuttering along here trying to say that we let our potential become our achievement. We do not achieve because we are pacified in telling ourselves that we COULD have done it. When our anger and disappointment begin to surface, we just layer on a thick cream of could have and eventually, we believe it. Our fear of failure, our fear of strange circumstance, keep us from trying.
We convince ourselves we could have, but didn't. We didnt fail because we weren't good enough but because we chose not to compete. A life lived on could have. Maybe you would have done something, maybe you would not have done something. I will never know unless i try.