kinetic energy and setting goals

Don't blemish the potential

Kinetic and potential

As a young boy, I was pure energy. 

ZinG!

Away I would tumble, role and ride. Oh how I loved to ride my bike.

My preferred energy type was kinetic.

The others, older ones, preferred my energy in another state. 

The others, older ones, were quite happy to remark about what wonderful potential I had.

The key words there are “potential” and “one day”, meaning, not their responsibility and not now. Apparently, at some later date, all of this ‘potential’ was supposed to somehow magically become something.

Potential energy with regard to gravity is explained simply as mass times gravity times height.

As such, my guess that having ‘potential’ somehow meant that I was either heavy or high. Back when they spoke of my potential, I was neither. 

What the hell was supposed to happen to all of this ‘potential’? 

I imagine that the point was to reach the highest place I could, find a groove and, like a marble in those noisey marble mazes my kids used to make, find a rut / route that some…