Potential Energy

SpringPress a spring down and it stores the energy of your pressure, holding it as potential until you release it to pop up again. Whatever you are experiencing right now, however delightful or difficult, is being stored as potential energy. When it might pop up is anybody’s guess.

What in your life feels like it is holding—or holding back—a lot of potential?

4 thoughts on “Potential Energy”

  1. My aspirations during retirement days have been to practice being the graphic artist that has been a major interest during my adult life. I have, on the other hand, devoted time to become involved in what I can do to help other people without the benefits that I have as a moderately comfortable life style during retirement. The large, continuing conflict for me is which do I place at the forefront; is the the solution to chose one or the other? Isn’t there a way to accomplish both? Do I really want to pursue art? Where is my muse? Questioning hasn’t brought a solution so far. Time is at a premium.

    1. Have you considered sharing your art with people in need, either in the form of giving it to them or creating it with them? I don’t know if this works as well with visual art as it does with music, and I don’t know if this sort of this is up your alley at all. It’s just what comes to my mind.

  2. There’s a lot of potential in what my dog and I can do together. I recently got a bunch of books on canine behavior and training; they may help me understand her better and improve her life. Some of the suggestions I was already doing, some I am now implementing, and some don’t make sense for us. However, there’s yet a fourth category (and it may well be the biggest one), comprised of things I’m currently physically unable to do, but would be wonderful/helpful if I can recover. I don’t know if this is possible. Concerning my back, the doctor seemed sure it would happen, yet I haven’t any progress since beginning treatment. I don’t know how long I should wait until I go back in, and I don’t know if there are any aids I can use if I don’t recover. I also don’t know if these suggestions will really help my dog or not. Basically, I don’t know how much potential there is/will be realized, yet there is still the sense that there is potential there.

    1. Thanks for your comments, Martin. It puts a different aspect on my hesitancy to get into “doing art” again. I’ll give it some thought to see what I might be able to work out. It appears from your comment re helping your dog that even though you may have physical disabilities, if they improve or you can adapt, you can realize your dream.

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