The Gift of Human Potential
As an artist and a poet, I see the world in colours and metaphor. Here’s something I saw recently.
Inside each and every one of us there is a myriad of experiences, qualities, knowledges and ideas. One of them might be patience, knowing how to grow vegetables, paint a picture, the perseverance to dig a garden bed, the ability to inspire another. They are what animate our hearts and give energy to our mind. They drive our lives and make us who we are. I like to think about them as colours. Streams of colours that are inside of us always.
The most important thing about this though, is that these parts of an individual, these gifts, when they are given to another, make possible the realisation of the truest most beautiful part of that person. I call this the Gift of Human Potential.
When the person brings light to another through their story, when one creates a garden for a school or community to grow food in, when someone shares a painting they are created for the pleasure of the rest. In making this offering, giving of their gift, all the colours inside the person begin in flow outwards into the space, into the group or the individual. So that positive colourful energy is flowing constantly and beautifully. Then when you have lots of people giving of their special gifts, the world becomes a universe of rainbows, of colour flows into rivers of light, as each person is giving of themselves, receiving another’s colour and this constant flow is lighting up the world, flowing energy about.The result is that each persons fullest potential is realised. Everyone is giving in a selfless incredible way. The world becomes a constant rainbow of humanity’s gifts.
April Crawford-Smith, July 2014