The tree on the horizon

There is a tree on the horizon;
There is the sky behind the tree;
and there is a mistery.

Such a peaceful and scary mistery
that makes me stop, and look;
even without understand.

And when I start to wonder,
'cause that is all we can do,
I get tired.

Then sometimes I forget to wonder
and it gets me again.

Potential

- Why don't you do something?
- What do you mean?
- I don't know.
- What does that mean, "why don't I do something?"
- Isn't there something you wanted to do? Isn't there something you wanna do?
- Like what?
- I don't know. You're good at so many things. You could do anything you wanted to do, you're good at everything that you do. Isn't there something else you wanna to do?
- Than what? To be your husband, to being Frankie's dad? What do you want me to do? What-what-what... in your, like, dream scenario of me, like, doing what I'm good at, what would that be?
- I don't know. I just... you're so good at so many things. You can do so many things. You have such capacity.
- For what?
- I don't... you can sing, you can draw, you can... dance.
- Listen, I didn't wanna be somebody's husband, okay? And I didn't wanna be somebody's dad. That wasn't my... goal in life. For some guys it is - wasn't mine. But somehow I've... it was what I wanted. I didn't know that. And it's all I wanna do. I don't want to do anything else. That's what I want to do. I work so I can do that.
- I'd like to see you have a job where you don't have to start drinking at 8 o'clock, in the morning, to go to it.
- No, I have a job that I *can* drink at 8 o'clock in the morning. What a luxury... you know? I get up for work, I have a beer, I go to work, I paint somebody's house - they're excited about it. I come home, I get to be with you. What's... Like, this is the dream.
- Doesn't it ever disappoint you?
- Why? Why would it disappoint me? I could still do whatever I could do.
- Because you have all this potential.
- So what? Why do you have to fucking make money off your potential?
- Look, I'm not even saying you have to make money off it. Do you miss it?
- What does potential mean? What does even potential mean? What does that mean "potential"? Potential for what? To turn it into what?

(Blue Valentine, 2010)