Don't worry about your potential in Life; you haven't wasted anything.

The accent lighting kept itself clear of snow to light this audacious vegetation.

Here's something I would feel so gratified to help people understand:

You haven't "wasted" any of your potential. You've simply LEARNED a little bit about life.

There is no such thing as wasted potential. What you know, now, about reality, about life, about what kind of support someone in your position could have used to have a better life...

THAT'S what you have to offer that no one who hasn't been YOU has to offer others!

You are a GIFT to the UNIVERSE.

You came here, knowing full well that you would forget the vast, complex, interconnected, beautiful entanglement of Purpose you have in life.

Your "Purpose" is no one, single pinnacle like "Winning The Super-Bowl" or "Climbing Mount Everest" or "Making A Lot Of Money." Those ideas of "Purpose" are so comically simple as to be a total joke to the celestial beings watching over us.

Your Purpose in life is so vastly dense and rich as to be literally incomprehensible to any human mind.

You know how a butterfly's wings affect a hurricane across the globe and it's just so hard to accept and truly grok that that is true?

That's what it's like trying to understand your Purpose in life. It's a red herring.

You don't need to understand your Purpose. You only need to trust that you didn't send yourself down here to Earth to suffer for no reason.

You had a plan and you put all the people, things, and life experiences you needed into your own path so that you would be prepared to fulfill all of your indescribably many Purposes EVERY day.

Learn to giggle at yourself for your past foolishness and be grateful for learning whatever lessons you have learned at this point, and know you have more lessons always coming, but that if you accept them the first time they knock on your door then you won't have to keep working at fending your lessons off.

Acceptance is so key in living in fulfillment, which is ultimately what you really want. Accept the things you cannot change.

All you need to do is Keep On Keepin' On, and Love As Bravely And As Honestly As You Can.

That's it, my friend. Take care of yourself and the people around you.