but that doesnot stop me from having my own thoughts…

here they are, and i preserve my right to be wrong:

i do feel that we - each one of us humans - have the potential (i mean POTENTIAL)to be great. we need to acknowledge that.
and i agree with you that the WAY it is bandied - this ‘potential’ thing - in the self-improvement world, is wrong: it creates pressure; makes us feel small/wrong/lazy/ignorant… ‘if we can’t find/manifest it’; it suggests that greatness is in terms of achievement or world-impact, rather than simple uniqueness.

the reason i use ‘greatness’ as a word is BECAUSE of this myth becoming world reality. that myth has people searching ways to be seen and acclaimed as ‘great’ - moving away from their own nature - which is what makes them ’small’.

a rose trying to be a daisy is ’small’ (because thats what it feels about itself). a rose becomes great when it ‘allows’ its roseness to emerge.

we may not, everyONE of us, be here to DO great things visible in the world. impacting one life also makes us great, if that is our ‘rose-ness’.

so, it is not the concept (that each one of us is unique, and great in that sense) that is wrong. but it’s propoganda and understanding (which actually hinders the greatness, rather than helping it)

do i make sense? (not necessarily a sense that makes you nod your head… yet, a clear illusion, if you will. …)