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What If You Were to Die Before You Discovered Your Full Potential?
Now ask your 14 year old self that question.
I have been asking myself this question a lot lately. Actually, I have been asking myself many questions for the last 9–10 months.
Do you know what your potential is? I don’t, and it kind of scares me.
I feel at home behind a keyboard and like an outcast in public. I only see potential when I get a comment or DM from another writer or reader telling me they can relate to my “rawness” in my writings. I’m not even sure what “rawness” means, but I think it’s the honesty and vulnerability I put out in my writings.
I had a 14-year-old kid message me last night, asking me to send him an article I wrote that he couldn’t read because I had it “paywalled.” This is one reason I didn’t want to paywall my answers on Quora. I want to help people going through the same shit in life I am, and it just happens a 14-year-old is struggling too.
If you paywall your answers on Quora some won’t be available to all readers unless they pay the $5 a month subscription fee.
His awareness hit me differently. This kid knows something is fucked up but doesn’t know where to find the “answers.” He is a 47-year-old me in a 14-year-old mindset. Could he be lying…
