There are things that are impossible, because they violate the basic laws of reality.
There are things that are impossible now, but will not be impossible in 20 years.
There are things that are impossible now, but will be possible next year, in time for the Holiday season.
There are things that are impossible, because in three dimensional space its putting a round peg in a square hole, but add in time, shapes change and they fit.
There are things that are impossible, because you are dealing with a big bureaucracy, that in a different country would be done on a daily basis.
There are things that are impossible, because your health insurance, or school district does not want to pay for them.
There are things that are impossible, only because no-one put the infrastructure in place 5 years ago.
There are things that are impossible, only because people don’t care enough to make them possible.
There are things that are impossible, only because people are to distracted, to know they are totally possible in other places in the world, where people are not so distracted.
There are things that are impossible, only because they require to much work and effort.
There are things that are impossible, only because that’s not the way we do that here.
There are things that are impossible, only because no-one else has thought to try them.
There are things that are impossible, because collective wisdom says its can’t be done.
So impossible is a reality and a mindset. often confused with improbable or inconceivable.
As Alan Moore pointed out the chance that the genetic material from millions of pairings of chromosomes since man and his predecessors began on earth, would combine over time to create you, would be totally impossible to create, but here you are, reading this. You are an impossibility, or from a religious point of view, your simple existence is a miracle! There are so many chance factors that could have prevented you from being here, so many miracles that had to happen to get your parents to meet, fall in love, have sex, fertilize an egg, successfully give birth, and to pass on the unique combination of DNA to make you, and not some other you. If they met a month later, a different egg, a different set of sperm, and you would not be here. Then to get both of their parents to do the same, and their parents, and their parents, and their parents. At that level you have 64 unique individuals all meeting and doing the same thing, at just the right time and place. One missed pair, and you would not be here, one different pairing of chromosomes (different egg or sperm), and you would be a different person. Then their parents, and their parents, and their parents…… To create all the unique things that had to happen to make you, would be like tossing a coin 10 million times and each time landing on heads, except for the 999,999,999 times would have to be tails.
So the next time someone tells you, your dream, your wish, your desire, is impossible.
The next time someone tells you one person can’t change the world, and make it a better place.
The next time someone tells you stopping a war, fighting climate change, ending racism, ending misogyny, ending domestic violence, and/or space colonization is impossible.
The next time someone tells you,what you want to do is impossible, unless it falls under the very first sentence in this post, then they are wrong.
Just remember your basic existence is an impossibility made real.
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