Sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

LEWIS CARROLL

When was the last time you believed in something that was designated as impossible?

The first stage of trying to determine whether or not this practice applies to you, must start with the overall premise of defining the word impossible.

My first reaction to the word, impossible, is, “says who?

There are numerous things in life that appear at face value as being absolutely impossible, and without doubt, some of them truly are.

But a majority of them, within a slim margin of potentials, could be relatively designated as almost impossible, given parameters we ourselves may not be aware of, or considerations that exist but have yet to present themselves, or simply just thinking differently, and solving the same issue through alternate perspectives.

When we are curators of addressing the impossible with ingenuity, creativity, diligence, perseverance and tenacity, many of the things which were previously designated impossible, fall by the sidelines and drop into the category of been there, done that.

So why is it such an unthinkable scenario that we might perceive things within the impossible spectrum and give them our greatest focus and consideration?

In Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll, aka Charles Dodgson, wrote about many issues, camouflaged through fictional characters whose position and purpose were relatively obvious, but were unspeakable subjects at the time at which he was writing.

A dreamer continuously traffics in the impossible, but they don’t view it as such at all. In fact, to the contrary, dreamers would tell you that they are continuously trafficking in the world of the possible and the highly probable.

Through this process, dreamers are able to accelerate through the permutations that would otherwise limit them, and find the solutions in the remaining variables that have yet to either be considered, attempted, or even contemplated.

To spend time thinking about impossible things is literally the catalytic variable that has propelled Homo sapiens to the very top of the food chain and dominance of the planet.

In our ability to comprehend the abstract nature of the spoken word, we were able to leverage that resource into our ability to look at the world through a filter of that which our imagination was capable of communicating.

For once there were words to put towards basic thoughts. It was the communication of those words that ultimately gave way to one abstract thought, migrating from the mind of one creature into another.

If more people were willing to contemplate the impossible with regularity, we would be all the further advanced as a direct result. We are creatures of continuous evolution, and only through our considered perspectives, will we ever ultimately advance as a specie overall.

Happy Sunday!

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