Still processing the "People can be lower than you'd expect" lesson.

I don't know why some people who used to seem capable of much better just chose to get meaner. I don't believe that I would. I don't see how that's the healthiest way, at all, for anybody. It's as if I didn't get how fearfully they were living. Perhaps I wanted to believe otherwise, just to be able to "see the potential." Maybe I need to start getting better at seeing my potential instead.