The word "impossible" is used
when we get to the limit of our abilities, when we know better, the word fades
away and it becomes "I’m possible".
I remember vividly in elementary school, we
were taught that
1+2=3, but
1-2=impossible.
You can imagine my shock when I got into
high school and we were taught that
1-2=-1,
I was like, are you kidding me? Then it was
time for the square roots, cube roots, exponential factors, quadratic equations
and one we aptly labeled "almighty formula". We were taught that
The square root of 4 is 2, but
that
The square root of -1 is impossible.
Off to college and in the very first class,
learned that
The square root of -1 is i.
Then discovered that
1= Cos^2 # + Sin^2 # (where # is theta, from the Greek alphabet)
It was becoming ridiculous for me, but then
I thought, maybe they (whoever was in charge of the curriculum) thought that it
is better to give it to us in bits and pieces, like in unveiling a new product
or service.
You can't fault the thought though, it was
a lot to take on at that time and they really expanded our thought processes,
especially the word problems.
Looking back now, impossible was possible
for my small mind back in elementary school, and as it expanded, the word
gradually slipped out, until the next big thing. My thought, we will always
face impossible situations until we become bigger, wiser, smarter, more
knowledgeable to successfully execute the challenge.
One advantage we have is that our mind is
like a rubber band, once expanded and released, returns, but not to its
original state, it retains some of the stretch due to the stress that it was
subjected to. The longer a rubber band is subjected to a stretch, the more
likely it is to retain a greater portion of the stretch after the stress has
been removed.
With the above in mind, you can take on
challenges that you deem impossible, if only to gain the experience,
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