Impossible?

             

It’s always seems impossible until it’s done. Sound familiar? Does it make you think of the things you hesitated on at first but turned out quite well? Well, It does that for me, more importantly it makes me think of the many things that are not impossible  . By the way, I have quoted this from Nelson Mandela. Coming from a man who lay his life to do the impossible, I have no doubt it is true. When we conclude something is impossible, it’s because we think of all the things that could go wrong, forgetting that we are the authors of our destinies.

            Henry Ford once said, “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.” The universe gives you what you are thinking. How confusing! How many times do we give up simply because it just doesn’t familiar? Well, hold on because nothing is impossible; not even the invention of the time machine. If it can be conceived, it can be achieved, no matter how impossible it seems at first. Don’t take it from me, take it from the guy who made one of the automobiles in the train era.

            How is it that some people are so enlightened and somehow can do practically everything? Albert Einstein, who is also a legend, has an answer. “Logic will get you from A to Z; Imagination will get you everywhere." Some people call it thinking outside the box or creativity but imagination is its proper name. In business, for instance, data, spreadsheets, pie-charts can say a lot about market prospects but imagination is what really captures the market. It’s all about giving consumers what they didn’t know they needed but actually needed.

            In her book The Secret, Rhonda Bryne stresses the importance of visualizing the things we want before we have. Well, visualization is just another term for imagination. When logic doesn’t have answers, imagination almost always has them. People pay for ideas, businesses buy visions. Courses, degrees are all just tools to sharpen the imagination. I may sound too idealist but we live on planet which was created by word of mouth, not concrete.

            Too many times we get engrossed in details that will get us to the next step and that’s fine as long as we have the ultimate destination in mind. Funny thing about imagination is doesn’t matter which field it is applied in. A programmer may need to know a couple of programming languages, an engineer will need a lot of physics, an artist will need lots of canvas but these are just tools, they all need imagination to get to something useful.

            Your mind, my mind is a powerful weapons my friend. I’m actually afraid of it. It can build an entire civilization or ruin a whole nation. It’s the factor that turns the impossible to possible, it is the factor that makes some extraordinary. Life would be amazing if all we had to do is sit and imagine. Well it still is amazing, because everything we do or say sharpens our imagination.  It’s time to get dreamy….:D