11/09/2026
Sometimes seeing the potential in everything and everyone can actually be a coping mechanism🥵🫠
Because potential gives us something to hold onto when reality is asking us to let go 🎈
We tell ourselves, “They’re a good person deep down.”
“They’re just going through something.”
“I know who they could be.”
And maybe all of that is true. But at some point, we have to stop relating to people based on who we believe they could become and start accepting them for who they consistently show themselves to be.
⚠️There is a difference between believing in the good in someone and ignoring the evidence of how they treat you 📣
You can see someone’s potential, understand their wounds, empathize with their circumstances...and still choose not to stay where their actions hurt you❤️🩹
Maybe that’s the lesson: I don’t have to stop seeing the good in people. I just have to stop letting the good I imagine outweigh the reality I experience.