How I Feel About The Idea of Potential

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realised that potential is literally just an idea and a feeling instead of a fact, now I’m not saying it’s a bad thing to see potential in something or someone, but emotionally attaching urself too much to it that’s yet to be proven is quite taxing on your mental health/peace of mind, that’s why nowadays I just take things and ppl for who or what they are now and let fate run its course and show me if it’s true. Ik this sounds negative but I’m not being negative at all, if anything I just see everything with a nuanced perspective. But what do u think? At the end of the day this is just my opinion anyway and I don’t know everything.