Potentials and opportunities

I went through these photos and thought of what a Tanzanian friend recently told me:

'I haven't yet reached my full potential'.

His statement still stays with me. Powerful it is, and confident.

Like when my nephew Baltasar (photo above) called me last week from Iceland to tell me he had been rated a top-performing super-pupil.

Important, especially these days where youth in Northern Africa and in the Middle East is taking to the streets - well - basically because they've got potential which has to be used.

It is not a thing I hear very often in Denmark. That you consider your potential, and that you cannot waste opportunities not to use it.

First, we are brought up to believe that we're all equal, that we must blend in and not brag. Secondly, I feel that the Danes take too many things for granted. As if we're expecting that opportunities will always be there, and that opportunities are only there for us.

Not that we have to do something extraordinarily ourselves to reach it.

I think we have to, though.

Life is simply more interesting that way.