wasted potential

looking at old photos....i thought i looked so bad in them but now they don't look so bad....and the people there with me - it all looked so perfect - such potential - wasted - thrown away - needs not met and the desire to grow somehow....and now like a plant growing out alone clinging to the cliff edge - takes all just to cling on and survive instead of growing and thriving but still yearning for the sun and all that potential in full bloom