Impotence or Potentiality?

 

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence. ~ George Santayana

Potentiality: the possibility
of something happening
or of someone doing something
in the future. It’s related to impotent
but there’s more meaning than
the familiar word “impotent:”
Unable to take effective action;
helpless or powerless. as in
“he was seized with an impotent anger.”
We learn in Steps Six and Seven
our character defects have a positive side
and that we can substitute the positive
fir the defect.
We can identify with impotence
with no carnal implications.
Impotent, powerless, ineffective,
inadequate, weak, useless, worthless,
feeble…
If our attitude, our commitment to a desirable result
is lame, feeble, fruitless, the other side of that attitude
would be resolving to approach the goal with potentiality,
or to apply qualities or abilities that may be developed
and lead to future success or usefulness.