Word I use quite seldom, although I do feel it.
The last couple of days I have been trying to look at people not as they are, but as who they are POTENTIALLY, given a boost. It makes it much easier to love them.
And I think that people need a space to move. You need to create a gap right under their feet, such that they fall into something new. That gap begins with humility–I have felt my way into that–and ends with a vision for them, a new way of seeing them, such that they realize who they can become.
This is a feeling, as I said. It’s not concrete, and I’m not entirely sure how to describe it. This is my stab at it. When I get it more clearly, well, hell, I’ll do it better.