potential

Don’t dwell on the dream too long. Don’t dwell on what you don’t have. Dwell on what you have and take action towards what you don’t.

And I see now, as I sip this damn fine cup of coffee, that it’s not the being that matters, but the doing. Instead of being a writer, I just wrote. Instead of being a filmmaker, I made a movie. This is leaving Kansas.

I always wanted to write books and make movies but I couldn’t take action. Maybe it was a lack of discipline or just plain fear, but this inability to take action towards what I wanted crippled me. So I quit. No writing books, no making movies, no nothing. It was 2020 and the plan was to download this app called TikTok and make videos for a year... See more

I LIKE LOS ANGELES. It is pretty and sad. It is sad because it is filled with people who were once told they had so much potential. And because the weather is pleasant, they stayed in that state of potential forever and one day woke up and they weren’t twenty anymore—nor thirty, nor forty, nor fifty. It is a city of people high on potential where... See more