When “you’re capable of doing better” is internalized as “you should have done better, every time”
Replying to @danidonovan
“live up to your potential” is written on my brain with permanent marker. it never fades.
what kind of pressure is that to put on a child?
“if you don’t end up doing great things, just know it’s not because you couldn’t... it’s because you didn’t.”
I. WAS. A. KID.
