Exit

What kind of relationship is pivoted on the idea of "Potential"? What does it mean when someone says that "I think you have potential"?

Potential to...what? What the hell does "potential" mean?

The potential to produce to beautiful offsprings? Potential to make make him happy for the rest of his life? Potential to create many lovely memories with him? Potential to make him rich? Or perhaps he meant the potential to bring him from one point to another point (ie to bring him towards his goal)?

And so, is "Potential" a good enough qualifier of Love?

If that were so, then I must say that love is an overated emotion. Before the scientifically declared 2-year mark in a relationship, love was just a crazy, hormone-induced emotion; after that scientifically declared 2-year mark, love becomes a conscious and conscientious decision, that could get tedious and tiring sometimes. So by that route of deduction, a person with potential is someone whom you want to continually reassert your decision on.

Then what if none of the aforementioned "potentials" ever ripen? Wouldn't all the goals that were supposed to be built upon making that decision never be realized?

Crawling along the jammed tunnels of CTE, I was made very aware of the Exits that lined the walls of the tunnel, because all I could think of were the possibilities of an escape. Would I throw caution to the wind and run towards that Exit?



It reminded me of a scene in Prison Break II, when Lincoln and Michael were re-captured. Their vehicle was stopped right beside an Exit door, and the key to their handcuffs were "coincidentally" left behind by an "absent-minded" prison guard who went to settle the road block situation. If they could pull off the escape, they could be free, but freedom had danger and uncertainty written all over it. There could be assassins engaged by the Company stationed behind closed doors awaiting for the chance to strike, the police could shoot at them and 'accidentally' kill them if they were running, the possibilities were endless. At the same time, if they'd stayed and passed up the one opportunity to escape, it was obvious that they'd remain miserable forever in jail.

But their decision and ultimatum was clear right from the beginning, whereas mine wasn't.